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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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