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\"\"<\/h4>\n

I who am dead a thousand years,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And wrote this sweet archaic song,<\/span>
\nSend you my words for messengers<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The way I shall not pass along.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I care not if you bridge the seas,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or ride secure the cruel sky,<\/span>
\nOr build consummate palaces<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of metal or of masonry.<\/span><\/h4>\n

But have you wine and music still,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And statues and a bright-eyed love,<\/span>
\nAnd foolish thoughts of good and ill,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And prayers to them who sit above?<\/span><\/h4>\n

How shall we conquer? Like a wind<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That falls at eve our fancies blow,<\/span>
\nAnd old Moeonides the blind<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Said it three thousand years ago.<\/span><\/h4>\n

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Student of our sweet English tongue,<\/span>
\nRead out my words at night, alone:<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I was a poet, I was young.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Since I can never see your face,<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And never shake you by the hand,<\/span>
\nI send my soul through time and space<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To greet you. You will understand.<\/span><\/h4>\n
James Elroy Flecker<\/b>\u00a0was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where his father was headmaster, and at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford.<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n

After university he joined the Diplomatic Service, spending time in Constantinople and Beirut. In 1913 he went to Switzerland to seek a cure for his tuberculosis but died there two years later at the age of 31.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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