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A Week

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On Monday night I closed my door,     And thought you were not as heretofore,     And little cared if we met no more.     I seemed on Tuesday night to trace     Something beyond mere commonplace     In your ideas, and heart, and face.     On Wednesday I did not opine     Your life would ever be one with mine,     Though if it were we should well combine.     On Thursday noon I liked you well,     And fondly felt that we must dwell     Not far apart, whatever befell.     On Friday it was with a thrill     In gazing towards your distant vill     I owned you were my dear one still.     I saw you wholly to my mind     On Saturday even one who shrined     All that was best of womankind.     As wing-clipt sea-gull for the sea     On Sunday night I longed for thee,     Without whom life were waste to me!

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