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wish to you I could give<br />

I deep solace to help you live,<br />

but words are all that I own,<br />

nothing but names alone.<br />

But, you beneficent light,<br />

white splendid, white dispersed light,<br />

descend on her and never let her go<br />

without your blessed glow.<br />

Still and s<strong>of</strong>t like you she’s made,<br />

no surprise at you she’s displayed –<br />

she’s in her own element,<br />

as a fish for water is meant.<br />

I know not if she makes<br />

you light as her mouth takes<br />

breath, or if she was made through<br />

and materialised from you.<br />

She’s like the gold sun <strong>of</strong> late day,<br />

a last autumn day to pray,<br />

the grasses and all the trees,<br />

to the sunlight, high up in the breeze.<br />

She is the silvery drifting<br />

the tender light-blushing gifting<br />

h e r m a n gorter<br />

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