by Francis William Bourdillon (1852 - 1921)
The night has a thousand eyes
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Language: English
Our translations: GER
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Francis William Bourdillon, Among the Flowers, London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878, page 101.
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- by Francis William Bourdillon (1852 - 1921), "Light", appears in Among the Flowers, first published 1878 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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