“For in the days we know not of
Did fate begin
Weaving the web of days that wove
Your doom.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faustine.
Undated
“We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age—
Are they withered in the sod?”
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), From Retrospection (1835)
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