Perhaps, Long Hence, When I Have Passed Away, Some Other'S Feature, Accent, Thought Like Mine, Will Carry You Back To What I Used To Say, And Bring Some Memory Of Your Love'S Decline. Then You May Pause Awhile And Think, "Poor Jade!" And Yield A Sigh To Me As Ample Due, Not As The Tittle Of A Debt Unpaid To One Who Could Resign Her All To You - And Thus Reflecting, You Will Never See That Your Thin Thought, In Two Small Words Conveyed, Was No Such Fleeting Phantom-Thought To Me, But The Whole Life Wherein My Part Was Played; And You Amid Its Fitful Masquerade A Thought As I In Yours But Seem To Be. 1866.
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