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Heloise

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I saw a light on yester-night     A low light on the misty lea;     The stars were dim and silence grim     Sat brooding on the sullen sea.     From out the silence came a voice     A voice that thrilled me through and through,     And said, "Alas, is this your choice?     For he is false and I was true."     And in my ears the passing years     Will sadly whisper words of rue:     Forget and yet can I forget     That one was false and one was true?

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