For a Viola-da-gamba

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Harold Acton

(To be sung by a Eunuch)

I HAVE known beauty
Of skies at eve
Beneath the shadows
That interweave
The boughs that grieve.
I have known beauty
Of suns that set
With fire of amber
And coronet
Of pearl inlet.
I have known beauty
Of fields at dawn
When April shivers
On gilded corn,
And hope is born.
I have known beauty
Of Summer, Spring,
Nebulous Autumn
Cloud gathering
With frail-poised wing.
I have known beauty—
But none so fair
To match the splendour
Of my love’s hair
And snow limbs bare.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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