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The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVIII
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
Then these two long silence hold,
And the lisping babe doth say
'White white bird, it flew away.'
And they marvel at these things,
For her ghostly visitings
Turn to them another face.
Haply she was sent, a friend
Trying them, and to good end
For their better weal and grace;
One more wonder let to be
In the might and mystery
Of the world, where verily
And good sooth a man may wend
All his life, and no more view
Than the one right next to do.
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Ingelow, Jean. “The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ingelow/89/.
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Ingelow, Jean. “The Sleep of Sigismund: XLVIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ingelow/89/.
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