The Autumnal Eve
David Macbeth
Moir
Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta,
∆)
△
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poet attribution: △ is the pseudonym in Blackwood’s for David Macbeth Moir. (AC)
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
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We met and parted on an autumn eve,
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The Autumnal Eve
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We met and parted on an autumn eve,
When moonlight, with its beauty, steeped the vale,
Silent, and not a cloud was seen to sail
Athwart the azure firmament. Believe,
Ye who have felt the ecstasies of love,
What were my feelings, when I gazed on her,
Whom—absent—life had nothing to confer ;
Whose presence rendered earth like heaven above
!
Upon a rock, above the murmuring sea,
Linked arm and arm, in thoughtfulness we stood
;
And, as I marked our shadows on the flood,
I dream’t that Fate intended us to be
United always—’twas a dream ; and, lo !
Between us mountains rise, and oceans flow !
Δ
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