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Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837–1909

Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild, Though two great spirits had lived, and hence had sped Unreconciled;

Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child, That wed strange hands together, might not wed High hearts by hope's misprision once beguiled;

Faith, by the light from either's memory shed, Sees, radiant as their ends were undefiled, One goal for each--not twain among the dead Unreconciled.

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