Requies

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Title:     Requies
Author: Arthur Symons [More Titles by Symons]

O IS it death or life
That sounds like something strangely known
In this subsiding out of strife,
This slow sea-monotone?

A sound, scarce heard through sleep,
Murmurous as the August bees
That fill the forest hollows deep
About the roots of trees.

O is it life or death,
O is it hope or memory,
That quiets all things with this breath
Of the eternal sea?

[The end]
Arthur Symons's poem: Requies

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