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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Love in Exile (Songs). V. (X.) “On Life’s Long Round”

Mathilde Blind (1841–1896)

ON life’s long round by chance I found

A dell impearled with dew,

Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground

Lent to the earth heaven’s native hue

Of holy blue.

I sought that plot of azure light

Once more in gloomy hours;

But snow had fallen overnight

And wrapped in mortuary white

My fairy ring of flowers.