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A Face In A Book

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In an old book I found her face         Writ by a dead man long ago -     I found, and then I lost the place;         So nothing but her face I know,         And her soft name writ fair below.     Even if she lived I cannot learn,         Or but a dead man's dream she were;     Page after yellow page I turn,         But cannot come again to her,         Although I know she must be there.     On other books of other men,         Far in the night, year-long, I pore,     Hoping to find her face again,         Too fair a face to see no more -         And 'twas so soft a name she bore.     Sometimes I think the book was Youth,         And the dead man that wrote it I,     The face was Beauty, the name Truth -         And thus, with an unseeing eye,         I pass the long-sought image by.

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