A Refugee (Lilian Bowes Lyon)

• Lilian Bowes Lyon

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• A Woman Knitting (Lilian Bowes Lyon)
• Battlefield (Lilian Bowes Lyon)
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• Pastoral (Lilian Bowes Lyon)
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A Refugee

Outside your window, venerable with light The transient dusk, whose tale is never ended, Paused in a foreigner pausing, used to night Yet one lamp vicariously befriended.   Learning as evening learns, the grave allegiance Only to see through glass and not to share A kingdom kind, a room’s ordained effulgence; Bound an honour castaway as air   To bruise no gossamer pane, to break no seal. Briefly as dusk to serve your mellowing altar; Fate and the night stood steady in his soul, Who thanked a shadow, fire-defined, for shelter.