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1849–1903

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William Ernest Henley

The shadow of Dawn; Stillness and stars and over-mastering dreams Of Life and Death and Sleep; Heard over gleaming flats the old unchanging sound

Of the old unchanging Sea. My soul and yours — O hand in hand let us fare forth, two ghosts, Into the ghostliness,

The infinite and abounding solitudes, Beyond — O beyond!— beyond... Here in the porch Upon the multitudinous silences

Of the kingdoms of the grave, We twain are you and I — two ghosts Omnipotence Can touch no more — no more!

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