Δαιμονιζόμενος
Arthur Christopher
Benson
Benson, Arthur Christopher
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
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The Yellow Book
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You were clear as a sandy spring
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Δαιμονιζόμενος
By Arthur Christopher Benson
You were clear as a sandy spring
After a drought, when its waters run
Evenly, sparingly, filtering
Into the eye of the sun.
Love you took with a placid smile,
Pain you bore with a hopeful sigh,
Never a thought of gain or guile
Slept in your wide blue eye.
Suddenly, once, at a trivial word,—
Side by side together we stept,—
Rose a tempest that swayed and stirred ;
Over your soul it swept.
Dismal visitants, suddenly,
Pulled the doors in your house of clay ;
Out of the windows there stared at me
Something horrible, grey.