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To-Day You Understand.

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You lifted eyes pain-filled to me,          Sad, questioning eyes that did demand         Why I should thrust back, childishly,         The friendship warm you offered me -          Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!         'Twas that my heart beat rapturously          At word of thine, at touch of hand,         At tender glance vouchsafed to me         The while I knew it must not be -          Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!         There's neither pain nor mystery          In that far-off and fragrant land         To which you journeyed fearlessly;         By gates of pearl and jasper sea -          Ah, sweet, to-day you understand!

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