Nature
XLV
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Nature
Each hour that sees the sunset's crest
Make bright thy shores ere day decline
Sees dawn the sun on shores of thine,
Sees west as east and east as west
On thee their sovereign shine.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XLV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/252/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XLV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/252/.
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