| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| On the Bridge |
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| ALL the storm has rolled away, | |
| Only now a cloud or two | |
| Drifts in ragged disarray | |
| Over the deep darkened blue; | |
| And the risen golden moon | 5 |
| Shakes the shadows of the trees | |
| Round the river’s stillnesses | |
| And the birdsong of the June. | |
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| Under me the current glides, | |
| Brown and deep and dimly lit, | 10 |
| Soundless save against the sides | |
| Of the arch that narrows it; | |
| And the only sound that grieves | |
| Is a noise that never stops, | |
| Footsteps of the falling drops | 15 |
| Down the ladders of the leaves. | |
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