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lirik lagu richard mitchley - algernon charles swinburne - the year of the rose

from the depths of the green garden~closes
where the summer in darkness dozes
till autumn pluck from his hand
an hour~glass that holds not a sand;
from the maze that a flower~belt encloses
to the stones and sea~grass on the strand
how red was the reign of the roses
over the rose~crowned land!

the year of the rose is brief;
from the first blade blown to the sheaf
from the thin green leaf to the gold
it has timе to be sweet and grow old
to triumph and leave not a lеaf
for witness in winter’s sight
how lovers once in the light
would mix their breath with its breath
and its spirit was quenched not of night
as love is subdued not of death

in the red~rose land not a mile
of the meadows from stile to stile
of the valleys from stream to stream
but the air was a long sweet dream
and the earth was a sweet wide smile
red~mouthed of a goddess, returned
from the sea which had borne her and burned
that with one swift smile of her mouth
looked full on the north as it yearned
and the north was more than the south
for the north, when winter was long
in his heart had made him a song
and clothed it with wings of desire
and shod it with shoon as of fire
to carry the tale of his wrong
to the south~west wind by the sea
that none might bear it but he
to the ear of the goddess unknown
who waits till her time shall be
to take the world for a throne

in the earth beneath, and above
in the heaven where her name is love
she warms with light from her eyes
the seasons of life as they rise
and her eyes are as eyes of a dove
but the wings that lift her and bear
as an eagle’s, and all her hair
as fire by the wind’s breath curled
and her passage is song through the air
and her presence is spring through the world

so turned she northward and came
and the white~th~rn land was aflame
with the fires that were shed from her feet
that the north, by her love made sweet
should be called by a rose~red name;
and a murmur was heard as of doves
and a music beginning of loves
in the light that the roses made
such light as the music loves
the music of man with maid
but the days drop one upon one
and a chill soft wind is begun
in the heart of the rose~red maze
that weeps for the roseleaf days
and the reign of the rose undone
that ruled so long in the light
and by spirit, and not by sight
through the darkness thrilled with its breath
still ruled in the viewless night
as love might rule over death

the time of lovers is brief;
from the fair first joy to the grief
that tells when love is grown old
from the warm wild kiss to the cold
from the red to the white~rose leaf
they have but a season to seem
as rose~leaves lost on a stream
that part not and pass not apart
as a spirit from dream to dream
as a sorrow from heart to heart

from the bloom and the gloom that encloses
the death~bed of love where he dozes
till a relic be left not of sand
to the hour~glass that breaks in his hand;
from the change in the grey garden~closes
to the last stray grass of the strand
a rain and ruin of roses
over the red~rose land

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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