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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLITUDE, by STUART MERRILL Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell that kings now dead once walked this path
Last Line: And the everlasting moment of prayer, our kiss.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: They tell that kings now dead once walked this path
Last Line: And the everlasting moment of prayer, our kiss.
Subject(s): Silence; Solitude; Loneliness
They tell that kings now dead once walked this path
That we so often paced at eve along
To the stone seat where solitude fell with dusk
When our hearts were like psalters, full of silent song.
From this rock might be seen, through triumphal calls,
The plain suddenly abristle with iron blades,
And crowds through all seasons toward the festive city
Rolled like a red flood in their cavalcades.
But not the gallant horsemen sun-bronzed beneath their banners,
Nor the gay thunder of drums across the spring,
Nor the cries of golden trumpets until the heavens tingle—
Could console our weary hours like the solitude of this,
The caress of the shadows that the winds intermingle,
And the everlasting moment of prayer, our kiss.
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