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Shamus

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2020.05.09 11:11

A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
At the sea-down’s edge between windward and lee,
Walled round with rocks as an inland island,
The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.
A girdle of brushwood and thorn encloses
The steep, square slope of the blossomless bed
Where the weeds that grew green from the graves of its roses
Now lie dead.

The fields fall southward, abrupt and broken,
To the low last edge of the long lone land.
If a step should sound or a word be spoken,
Would a ghost not rise at the strange guest’s hand?
So long have the gray, bare walks lain guestless,
Through branches and briers if a man make way,
He shall find no life but the sea-wind’s, restless
Night and day.
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  • Shamus 2020.05.09 11:11

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    Can you see the sleeping snail in the final pic? 😉
  • Nostalgia 🪐 2020.05.09 11:14

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    @Shamus Yup so lovely pictures❤
  • Anna DAR 2020.05.09 11:17

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    @Shamus yes, natural nature, wonderful 👍💙
  • lily 2020.05.09 16:06

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    Wow, the flowers 😍😍😍😍 Incredible, as if everyone of them is talking a story of beauty

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