"Two lines of an unforgettable beauty are
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'The flowers and love stole sweetness from the sun; The short, sweet lives of summer things are done.' |
"And a line Shelley himself might have been proud to own is
'No bird-note quivers on the frosty air.'
"The lines
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'He must, who would give life, Be lord of death:' |
and
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'Shall a life which found no sun In death find God?' |
express musically a mystic thought.
"The sonnet 'In Time to Come' is one of astonishing crescendo. The lines