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St. Launce's Revisited

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Slip back, Time!     Yet again I am nearing     Castle and keep, uprearing         Gray, as in my prime.         At the inn     Smiling close, why is it     Not as on my visit         When hope and I were twin?         Groom and jade     Whom I found here, moulder;     Strange the tavern-holder,         Strange the tap-maid.         Here I hired     Horse and man for bearing     Me on my wayfaring         To the door desired.         Evening gloomed     As I journeyed forward     To the faces shoreward,         Till their dwelling loomed.         If again     Towards the Atlantic sea there     I should speed, they'd be there         Surely now as then? . . .         Why waste thought,     When I know them vanished     Under earth; yea, banished         Ever into nought.

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