Duet



1. Is it the wind of the dawn that I hear
      in the pine overhead?
2. No; but the voice of the deep as it hollows
      the cliffs of the land.
1. Is there a voice coming up with the
      voice of the deep from the strand,
   Once coming up with a Song in the
      flush of the glimmering red?
2. Love that is born of the deep coming
      up with the sun from the sea.
1. Love that can shape or can shatter a
      life till the life shall have fled?
2. Nay, let us welcome him, Love that
      can lift up a life from the dead.
1. Keep him away from the lone little isle.
      Let us be, let us be.
2. Nay, let him make it his own, let him
      reign in it - he, it is he,
   Love that is born of the deep coming
      up with the sun from the sea.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Scheme abcdedebfEebgbheiefE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 747
Words 158
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20

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