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The Richard Burton Poetry Collection

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As I drive to the junction of lane and highway
And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette
I look behind at the fading byway
And see on its slope, now glistening wet
Distinctly yet
Myself and a girlish form benighted
In dry March weather. We climb the road
Beside a chaise. We had just alighted
To ease the sturdy pony's load
When he sighed and slowed
What we did as we climbed, and what we talked of
Matters not much, nor to what it lеd, —
Something that life will not be balkеd of
Without rude reason till hope is dead
And feeling fled
It filled but a minute. But was there ever
A time of such quality, since or before
In that hill's story? To one mind never
Though it has been climbed, foot-swift, foot-sore
By thousands more
Primaeval rocks form the road's steep border
And much have they faced there, first and last
Of the transitory in Earth's long order;
But what they record in colour and cast
Is — that we two passed
And to me, though Time's unflinching rigour
In mindless rote, has ruled from sight
The substance now, one phantom figure
Remains on the slope, as when that night
Saw us alight
I look and see it there, shrinking, shrinking
I look back at it amid the rain
For the very last time; for my sand is sinking
And I shall traverse old love's domain
Never again
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