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Joseph

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If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams     Of bliss and blasphemy came true,     If skies were green and snow were gold,     And you loved me as I love you;     O long light hands and curled brown hair,     And eyes where sits a naked soul;     Dare I even then draw near and burn     My fingers in the aureole?     Yes, in the one wise foolish hour     God gives this strange strength to a man.     He can demand, though not deserve,     Where ask he cannot, seize he can.     But once the blood's wild wedding o'er,     Were not dread his, half dark desire,     To see the Christ-child in the cot,     The Virgin Mary by the fire?

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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