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Famous Effluent Poems by Famous Poets

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by Pessoa, Fernando
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And say «'tis sunless» and «there is no sun»;

And yet the very day they wrong truth by

Is of the unseen sun's effluent essence,

The very words do give themselves the lie,

The very thought of absence comes from presence:

Even so deem we through Good of what is evil.

He speaks of light that speaks of absent light,

And absent god, becoming present devil,

Is still the absent god by essence' right.

The withdrawn cause by being withdrawn doth get

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by Service, Robert William
...be a memory of cheer.
There is hope and golden promise in the vast portentous dawn;
 There is glamour in the glad, effluent sky:
Go and leave me; I will dream of you and love you when you're gone;
 I have served you, O my masters! let me die.

 A little heap of ashes, grey and sodden by the rain,
 Wind-scattered, blurred and blotted by the snow:
Let that be all to tell of me, and glorious again,
 Ye things of greening gladness, leap and glow!
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