Blue of Smoke

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"Blue of Smoke"

HER dreamy eyes are of the blue of smoke,
That softly, frond by frond, and gyre by gyre,
O'er some thatched bothy, in a Highland glen,
Unfurls at gloaming from an ingle fire,

Whose hearth-stone is love's altar,--blue of smoke
Ascending, blending in blue heaven away,--
Blue of the fragrant smoke of vestal flame
That in her virgin heart burns night and day.

Title: Blue of Smoke
Identifier: greatwar_macfie059

Item sets: War: an Ode And Other Poems

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