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Her Song

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I sang that song on Sunday,     To witch an idle while,     I sang that song on Monday,     As fittest to beguile;     I sang it as the year outwore,     And the new slid in;     I thought not what might shape before     Another would begin.     I sang that song in summer,     All unforeknowingly,     To him as a new-comer     From regions strange to me:     I sang it when in afteryears     The shades stretched out,     And paths were faint; and flocking fears     Brought cup-eyed care and doubt.     Sings he that song on Sundays     In some dim land afar,     On Saturdays, or Mondays,     As when the evening star     Glimpsed in upon his bending face     And my hanging hair,     And time untouched me with a trace     Of soul-smart or despair?

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