Beside The Idle Summer Sea

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Title:     Beside The Idle Summer Sea
Author: William Ernest Henley [More Titles by Henley]

Beside the idle summer sea
And in the vacant summer days,
Light Love came fluting down the ways,
Where you were loitering with me.

Who has not welcomed, even as we,
That jocund minstrel and his lays
Beside the idle summer sea
And in the vacant summer days?

We listened, we were fancy-free;
And lo! in terror and amaze
We stood alone--alone at gaze
With an implacable memory
Beside the idle summer sea.

[The end]
William Ernest Henley's poem: Beside The Idle Summer Sea

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