XIV.
FFATHER! when I have passed, with deathly swoon,Into the ghost-world, immaterial, dim,O may nor time nor circumstance dislimnMy image from thy memory, as noonSteals from the fainting bloom the cooling dew!Like flower, itself completing bud and bell,In lonely thicket, be thy sorrow true,And in expression secret. Worse than hellTo see the grave hypocrisy—to hearThe crocodilian sighs of summer friendsOutraging grief’s assuasive, holy ends!But thou art faithful, father, and sincere;And in thy brain the love of me shall dwellLike the memorial music in the curved sea-shell.
FFATHER! when I have passed, with deathly swoon,Into the ghost-world, immaterial, dim,O may nor time nor circumstance dislimnMy image from thy memory, as noonSteals from the fainting bloom the cooling dew!Like flower, itself completing bud and bell,In lonely thicket, be thy sorrow true,And in expression secret. Worse than hellTo see the grave hypocrisy—to hearThe crocodilian sighs of summer friendsOutraging grief’s assuasive, holy ends!But thou art faithful, father, and sincere;And in thy brain the love of me shall dwellLike the memorial music in the curved sea-shell.
FFATHER! when I have passed, with deathly swoon,Into the ghost-world, immaterial, dim,O may nor time nor circumstance dislimnMy image from thy memory, as noonSteals from the fainting bloom the cooling dew!Like flower, itself completing bud and bell,In lonely thicket, be thy sorrow true,And in expression secret. Worse than hellTo see the grave hypocrisy—to hearThe crocodilian sighs of summer friendsOutraging grief’s assuasive, holy ends!But thou art faithful, father, and sincere;And in thy brain the love of me shall dwellLike the memorial music in the curved sea-shell.
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