1903 · CLOSE READING
The Star and the Garter
The Star and the Garter (1903), PDF p. 19
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VII
O Love! and were I with thee ever!
Come with me over the round earth,
O’er lake and fountain, sea and river !
Girdle the world with angel girth
Of angel voyage! Shall we roam
In teeming jungles poisonous?
Or make ourselves an eyrie-home
Where the black ice roars ravenous
In glittering avalanche? Or else
Hide in some corrie on the fells
Of heather and bracken, or delight
In grottos built of stalactite ?
Or be our lonely haunt the sand
Of the Sahara : let us go
Where some oasis, subtly planned
For love, invites the afterglow!
There let us live alone, except
Some bearded horseman, pennoned, ride
Over the waste of ochre, swept
By wind in waves, and sit beside
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