Transcribed from the 1887 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org LOCRINE A TRAGEDY BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE BY London CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1887 London [The right of translation is reserved] PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON p. vDEDICATION p. v TO ALICE SWINBURNE. I. The love that comes and goes like wind or fire Hath words and wings wherewith to speak and flee. But love more deep than passion’s deep desire, Clear and inviolable as the unsounded sea, What wings of words may serve to set it free, To lift and lead it homeward? Time and death Are less than love: or man’s live spirit saith False, when he deems his life is more than breath. The II. No words may utter love; no sovereign song Speak all it would for love’s sake. Yet would I Fain cast in moulded
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