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Remembered

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Here in the dusk I see her face again As then I knew it, ere she fell asleep; Renunciation glorifying pain         Of her soul's inmost deep. I shall not see its like again! the brow Of passive marble, purely aureoled, - As some pale lily in the afterglow, -         With supernatural gold. As if a rose should speak and, somehow heard By some strange sense, the unembodied sound Grow visible, her mouth was as a word         A sweet thought falters 'round. So do I still remember eyes imbued With far reflections - as the stars suggest The silence, purity and solitude         Of infinite peace and rest. She was my all. I loved her as men love A high desire, religion, an ideal - The meaning purpose in the loss whereof         God shall alone reveal.

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