When, Soul In Soul Reflected, We Breathed An Aethered Air, When We Neglected All Things Elsewhere, And Left The Friendly Friendless To Keep Our Love Aglow, We Deemed It Endless . . . We Did Not Know! When, By Mad Passion Goaded, We Planned To Hie Away, But, Unforeboded, The Storm-Shafts Gray So Heavily Down-Pattered That None Could Forthward Go, Our Lives Seemed Shattered . . . We Did Not Know! When I Found You, Helpless Lying, And You Waived My Deep Misprise, And Swore Me, Dying, In Phantom-Guise To Wing To Me When Grieving, And Touch Away My Woe, We Kissed, Believing . . . We Did Not Know! But Though, Your Powers Outreckoning, You Hold You Dead And Dumb, Or Scorn My Beckoning, And Will Not Come; And I Say, "'Twere Mood Ungainly To Store Her Memory So:" I Say It Vainly - I Feel And Know!
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