Arthur Symons

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Grey Hours: Naples

There are some hours when I seem so indifferent; all things fade To an indifferent greyness, like that grey of the sky; Always at evening-ends, on grey days; and I know not why, But life, and art, and love, and death, are the shade of a shade. Then, in those hours, I hear old voices murmur aloud, And memory forgoes desire, too weary at heart for regret; Dreams come with beckoning fingers, and I forget to forget; The world as a cloud drifts by, or I drift by as a cloud.