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We went a day's excursion to the stream,     Basked by the bank, and bent to the ripple-gleam,     And I did not know     That life would show,     However it might flower, no finer glow.     I walked in the Sunday sunshine by the road     That wound towards the wicket of your abode,     And I did not think     That life would shrink     To nothing ere it shed a rosier pink.     Unlooked for I arrived on a rainy night,     And you hailed me at the door by the swaying light,     And I full forgot     That life might not     Again be touching that ecstatic height.     And that calm eve when you walked up the stair,     After a gaiety prolonged and rare,     No thought soever     That you might never     Walk down again, struck me as I stood there.

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