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Interlude

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What love is; how I love; how builders' clay     By love is lit into a golden spending;     How love calls beautiful ghosts back to the day;     How life because of love shall have no ending,     These with the dawn I have begun to sing,     These with the million-budded noon that's rising     Shall be a theme, with love's consent, to bring     My song to some imperishable devising.     And may the petals of this garland fall     On every quarrel, and in fragrance bless     Old friendship; and a little comfort all     The weary loves that walk the wilderness,     While still my song I consecrate alone     To her who taking it shall take her own.

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