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Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other a sea; Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The poem compares two people who separate to ships that sail apart while an ever-widening sea fills the space between them. It laments that the shared past cannot cast any light on the years ahead; once parted, what was between them stays behind.
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