David Lewis Paget Poems

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351.
Castle Walls

She ventured out from her castle walls
In hopes of meeting me,
I said: ‘we’ll flee to the furthest shores,
We’ll run to the far countree,
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352.
Love-Lost

When the first sweet burst of love and lust
Has eddied and ebbed to dreams and dust,
Has eddied and ebbed in the tide of my head
To the essence of dreams and dust;
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353.
Home Acre

Is this your home-acre
Dark beauty of mine,
Cold winds and rash words
And long hurts and harsh wine,
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354.
Pu Tong Hua

English is simple, it flitters from the tongue,
It means what it says when all’s said and done,
No matter how we say it, stress it or declaim,
In English it always means the same, same, same!
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355.
Does She Stalk Pathways

‘How much we change...
I well remember when, ’
She said -
But that was years before
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356.
Catherine Gables

What would you with me
Catherine Gables,
Turn my face
From my winter stables,
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357.
From A Blue Cloud

From a blue cloud at the two o’clock
And out of the rain,
With a long step and a swift nod
The master came.
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358.
Passenger From Childhood

There was a bright-eyed boy
That no-one knows,
Who stowed away in steerage once,
I hid him in my clothes,
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359.
Now That I'M Mad

Why don’t you visit me,
Why be so sad,
Twilight is wizardry
Now that I’m mad;
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360.
Well We Might

There once was time to sit and spin
The dream without, the light within
When young ideals like creed and rote
Would wreathe their blue tobacco smoke.
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