VI

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

All naked in a sultry sky,

Droops blinded with his shining eye:

I will possess him or will die.

      I will grow round him in his place,

      Grow, live, die looking on his face,

      Die, dying clasp'd in his embrace.

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