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Friday 6 November
text 1 · poem
Love's Coming
John Shaw Neilson
Quietly as rosebuds
Talk to the thin air.
Love came so lightly
I knew not he was there.
Quietly as lovers
Creep at the middle moon.
Softly as players tremble
In the tears of a tune.
Quietly as lilies
Their faint vows declare.
Came the shy pilgrim,
I saw not he was there.
Quietly as tears fall
On a warm sin,
Softly as griefs call
In a violin.
With no hail or tempest,
Blue sword or flame,
Love came so lightly
I knew not that he came.
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How does Neilson convey the experience of love's quiet arrival?
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