Dedication - ristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems
TO MY BEST FRIEND THEODORE WATTS I DEDICATE IN THIS BOOK THE BEST I HAVE TO GIVE HIM Spring speaks again, and all our woods are stirred, And all our wide glad wastes aflower around, That twice have heard keen Aprils clarion sound Since here we first together saw and heard Springs light reverberate and reiterate word Shine forth and speak in season. Life stands crowned Here with the best one thing it ever found, As of my souls best birthdays dawns the third. There is a friend that as the wise man saith Cleaves closer than a brother: nor to me Hath time not shown, through days like waves at strife, This truth more sure than all things else but death, This pearl most perfect found in all the sea That washes toward your feet these waifs of life. THE PINES April 1882
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