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The Curtains Now Are Drawn (Song)

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I     The curtains now are drawn,     And the spindrift strikes the glass,     Blown up the jagged pass     By the surly salt sou'-west,     And the sneering glare is gone     Behind the yonder crest,     While she sings to me:     "O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,     And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,     And death may come, but loving is divine." II     I stand here in the rain,     With its smite upon her stone,     And the grasses that have grown     Over women, children, men,     And their texts that "Life is vain";     But I hear the notes as when     Once she sang to me:     "O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,     And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,     And death may come, but loving is divine."

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