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Days And Days

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The days that clothed white limbs with heat,     And rocked the red rose on their breast,     Have passed with amber-sandaled feet     Into the ruby-gated west.     These were the days that filled the heart     With overflowing riches of     Life, in whose soul no dream shall start     But hath its origin in love.     Now come the days gray-huddled in     The haze; whose foggy footsteps drip;     Who pin beneath a gypsy chin     The frosty marigold and hip.     The days, whose forms fall shadowy     Athwart the heart: whose misty breath     Shapes saddest sweets of memory     Out of the bitterness of death.

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