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Old Song

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My window is darkness,         The sighs of the night die in silence;         The lamp on my table         Burns gravely, the walls are withdrawn;         And beneath, in your darkness,         You are sleeping and dreaming forgetful,         But I think of you smiling,         For I'm wakeful and now it is only an hour to the dawn.         When the first throb of light comes         I shall rise and go out to the garden,         And walk the lawn's verdure         Before the wet gossamer goes;         And when you come down, sweet,         All singing and light in the morning,         Delight will break ambush         With your garden's most fragrant and softest and reddest red rose.

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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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