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After Lyrics by Arthur Somervell

A Broken Arc

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Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do its worst!
How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can
And, absorbed in the new life he leads
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change
Ha, what avails death to erase
His offence, my disgrace?
I would we were boys as of old
In the field, by the fold:
His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn
Were so easily borne!
I stand here now, he lies in his place:
Cover the face!
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Arthur Somervell

Arthur Somervell

About “After” by Arthur Somervell

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"After" appears on "A Broken Arc".

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