| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Shule, Agrah! | | By Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855–1905) |
| | | HIS face was glad as dawn to me, | |
| His breath was sweet as dusk to me, | |
| His eyes were burning flames to me, | |
| Shule, shule, shule, agrah! | |
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| The broad noon-day was night to me, | 5 |
| The full-moon night was dark to me, | |
| The stars whirl’d and the poles span | |
| The hour that God took him far from me. | |
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| Perhaps he dreams in heaven now, | |
| Perhaps he doth in worship bow, | 10 |
| A white flame round his foam-white brow, | |
| Shule, shule, shule, agrah! | |
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| I laugh to think of him like this, | |
| Who once found all his joy and bliss | |
| Against my heart, against my kiss, | 15 |
| Shule, shule, shule, agrah! | |
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| Star of my joy, art still the same | |
| Now thou hast gotten a new name? | |
| Pulse of my heart, my Blood, my Flame, | |
| Shule, shule, shule, agrah! | 20 | | | |
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