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Shamus

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2020.05.20 13:02

A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels
One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath.
Only the wind here hovers and revels
In a round where life seems barren as death.
Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping,
Haply, of lovers none ever will know,
Whose eyes went seaward a hundred sleeping
Years ago.

Heart handfast in heart as they stood, “Look thither,”
Did he whisper? “Look forth from the flowers to the sea;
For the foam-flowers endure when the rose-blossoms wither,
And men that love lightly may die—but we?”
And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened,
And or ever the garden’s last petals were shed,
In the lips that had whispered, the eyes that had lightened,
Love was dead.
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  • Cc 2020.05.20 13:05

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    It's really good to practice our listening 👍thank you
  • Yoko 2020.05.20 13:11

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    すごく綺麗に咲いて居て、羨ましい 日本では最近sns で、フレンチラベンダーのことを、闇落ちエビフライと呼ぶのが流行って居ました。 https://mobile.twitter.com/ushihito/status/1260401346533928960 Japanese fried shrimp likes French lavender 〜ver. Black and purple
  • Bloom. 2020.05.20 13:40

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    😄😄😄
  • Irina June Sun 2020.05.20 13:43

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    What wonderful background you have! Are you reading in the forest?
  • Shamus 2020.05.20 21:46

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    @Cc The garden. 😊
  • Shamus 2020.05.20 21:46

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    @Bloom. 😄😄😄
  • Shamus 2020.05.20 21:46

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    @Cc You are welcome and thank you for listening. 😊
  • Shamus 2020.05.20 21:47

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    @Yoko Wow. Thank you for sharing. 😊
  • EA 2020.05.26 20:01

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    I was the 100th like (Just letting you know) 🤭

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