Excerpt from Act???on's Defense: And Other Poems Out of their quiet, over miles of sky, Ever my burning sight would yearn to them With this too great desire. And oft I plunged Into a shadowed pool to quench at once My body's heat and this fierce flame within, In vain! Like to the stag I oft have seen Trample the fairness of an hostile copse To reach a farther shelter, while each move Doubled its danger; so through all the spring I came. At last one mom I woke and found The earth all summer, beauteous, wide and full. ...
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Excerpt from Act???on's Defense: And Other Poems Out of their quiet, over miles of sky, Ever my burning sight would yearn to them With this too great desire. And oft I plunged Into a shadowed pool to quench at once My body's heat and this fierce flame within, In vain! Like to the stag I oft have seen Trample the fairness of an hostile copse To reach a farther shelter, while each move Doubled its danger; so through all the spring I came. At last one mom I woke and found The earth all summer, beauteous, wide and full. Within me woke twin gladness to my world! I leapt, and gave the brimming call of old Delight, and felt the dream, the spell That held me, surge toward its goal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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