Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Silent Noon (draft, Rosenbach Library)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: holograph draft
Scribe: DGR
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- Your hands lie open in the long deep grass
- And the sweet points look through like rosy blooms:
- All round The waving meadow pasture gleams & glooms
- Neath billowing skies that scatter & amass.
- All round About us twain, far as the eye can pass,
- Are golden king cup fields with silver edge
- Where the cow parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.
- 'Tis visible silence, still as of the still hour-glass.
- Think through this silence how when we are old,
- 10We two shall think upon this place & day,
- The beauty around us & the beauty above,
- And each of the other's heart And harbour in our hearts And clasp unto our hearts, when tempests lour
- This close-companioned inarticulate hour
- When twofold silence was the song of love.
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