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1849–1903

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William Ernest Henley

My songs were once of the sunrise: They shouted it over the bar; First-footing the dawns, they flourished, And flamed with the morning star.

My songs are now of the sunset: Their brows are touched with light, But their feet are lost in the shadows And wet with the dews of night.

Yet for the joy in their making Take them, O fond and true, And for his sake who made them Let them be dear to You.

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