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Nor reddend brows made pale by floral grief
With splendid shadow from that lordlier leaf.
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… As a shed tear shalt thou be shed; but I —
Lo, earth may labour, men live long and die,
Years change and stars, and the High God devise
New things, and old things wane before his eyes
Who wields and wrecks them, being more strong than they.
But, having made me, me he shall not slay.
Swinburne: Poems and Ballads, Anactoria.
