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Aloof
Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830-1894
THE irresponsive silence of the land,
The
irresponsive sounding of the sea,
Speak both one message of one sense
to me:--
Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand
Thou too aloof, bound with
the flawless band
Of inner solitude; we bind not thee;
But
who from thy self-chain shall set thee free?
What heart shall touch thy
heart? What hand thy hand?
And I am sometimes proud and sometimes
meek,
And sometimes I remember days of old
When fellowship seem'd
not so far to seek,
And all the world and I seem'd much less
cold,
And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
And hope felt
strong, and life itself not weak.
From: Quiller-Couch, Arthur.
The Oxford Book of Verse. (1900)
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