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, For there you sat, you smiled, you chatted on
When for an hour we met (to call it meeting y 5 J )
Myself alone perceiving the keen cold
Barred by the bleak ice of society ¥ P .
; ; Sword at your heart, the speechless malison
From even the lover's glance, the lover's greeting.
; , That trembled on your tongue, the while it trolled
The intonation that means ecstasy !) .
. Its senseless clamour of necessary wit
One ray of saddest gladness lit the dusk: TM
; And woke the senseless necessary laughter
This — that I saw you pale and suffering, . yess
. . The senseless necessary reply to it
A goddess armed with myrrh instead of musk, yey
ao: The long sad silly commonplace thereafter.
With lips too cold to pray, too dry to sing. eens ¥ P
. ; . Suppose we had risen, as quick as thought, and stood
For by that sigh I knew the adorable PP asa oN
: . And caught and kissed — what could the storm have dot.c
Truth, that you wept in secret over me.
; . Worse than this sickening fog of solitude?
Your silence was the dumb despair of hell; gees
os Who can do worse than take away the sun?
Who read it right read love. Strange cruelty, 4
; They better had take care, I think. One da
That who would die for you, sweet murderess, y *
. ; . We shall go mad, and take ourseives away.
Should find his comfort in your bitterness! 6 ,
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