III

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Fatima

From my swift blood that went and came

A thousand little shafts of flame

Were shiver'd in my narrow frame.

      O Love, O fire! once he drew

      With one long kiss my whole soul thro'

      My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

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