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d. 1905 Scotland
William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
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The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.
Across the silent stream
I hear the little children of the wind
Love is a beautiful dream.
Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
How beautiful they are,
In the beginning, said a Persian poet—Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgam—it was a woman.
The desire of love, Joy:
Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring?
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