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Love Lies Bleeding.

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Love that is dead and buried, yesterday     Out of his grave rose up before my face,     No recognition in his look, no trace     Of memory in his eyes dust-dimmed and grey.     While I, remembering, found no word to say,     But felt my quickened heart leap in its place;     Caught afterglow thrown back from long set days,     Caught echoes of all music passed away.     Was this indeed to meet? - I mind me yet     In youth we met when hope and love were quick,     We parted with hope dead, but love alive:     I mind me how we parted then heart sick,     Remembering, loving, hopeless, weak to strive: -     Was this to meet? Not so, we have not met.

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