| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Sudden Light |
| | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) |
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| I HAVE been here before, | |
| But when or how I cannot tell: | |
| I know the grass beyond the door, | |
| The sweet keen smell, | |
| The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. | 5 |
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| You have been mine before,— | |
| How long ago I may not know: | |
| But just when at that swallow’s soar | |
| Your neck turn’d so, | |
| Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. | 10 |
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| Has this been thus before? | |
| And shall not thus time’s eddying flight | |
| Still with our lives our love restore | |
| In death’s despite, | |
| And day and night yield one delight once more? | 15 |
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