BW43: Happy Birthday Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges
October 23, 1844 - April 23, 1930 

In Autumn Moonlight

In autumn moonlight, when the white air wan 

Is fragrant in the wake of summer hence, 

'Tis sweet to sit entranced, and muse thereon 

In melancholy and godlike indolence: 

When the proud spirit, lull'd by mortal prime 

To fond pretence of immortality, 

Vieweth all moments from the birth of time, 

All things whate'er have been or yet shall be. 

And like the garden, where the year is spent, 

The ruin of old life is full of yearning, 

Mingling poetic rapture of lament 

With flowers and sunshine of spring's sure returning; 

Only in visions of the white air wan 

By godlike fancy seized and dwelt upon. 

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