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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LII
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I lived with Esther, not for many days,
 If days be counted by the fall of night
 And the sun`s rising, yet through years of praise,
 If truth be timepiece of joys infinite.
 And what a life it was! No vain sweet dream
 Of love in idleness which all men know,
 But a full drama fashioned on the theme
 Of strength victorious over death and woe.
 Here was no faltering. Ours the triumph was
 Of that strong logic which beholds each day
 As a new world to conquer, and the cause
 Itself complete of a more glorious fray.
 To--day our cycle was. In it sublime
 We sat enthroned as on the neck of Time.
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