Her Voice(Excerpt)
By Oscar Wilde
The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
Now in a lily-cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing
In his wandering.
Sit closer love: it was here I trow
I made that vow,
Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,
As long as the sunflower sought the sun,——
It shall be, I said, for eternity
Twixt you and me!
Dear friend, those times are over and done,
Love's web is spun.
Look upward where the poplar trees
Sway and sway in the summer air,
Here in the valley never a breeze
Scatters the thistledown, but there
Great winds blow fair
From the mighty murmuring mystical seas.
And the wave-lashed leas.
…
And there is nothing left to do
But to kiss once again, and part
Nay, there is nothing we should rue
I have my beauty,——you your Art,
Nay, do not start
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.
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