I Seek To Call You Near Me In The Dark

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Title:     I Seek To Call You Near Me In The Dark
Author: Laurence Alma-Tadema [More Titles by Alma-Tadema]

I seek to call you near me in the dark
And silent prison of my solitude,
Where Memory with visions heaven-hued
Now mocks the night, and Hope with timid spark
Kindles vain torches. Lonely in my ark
Of Faith, on battling waves I float, pursued
By all those doubting monsters that delude
Pain-sunken breasts, and bid the soul embark
For perilous despair. I call you near
That I may cheat the helmsman of his fear:
And yet I know you far, I know you lost
To me, on this same ocean tempest-tossed
Alone--O you who should my pilot be!
You, whom my love could steer through any sea....

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Laurence Alma-Tadema's poem: I Seek To Call You Near Me In The Dark

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