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On Christmas Eve (Serenade)

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Late on Christmas Eve, in the street alone,     Outside a house, on the pavement-stone,     I sang to her, as we'd sung together     On former eves ere I felt her tether. -     Above the door of green by me     Was she, her casement seen by me;     But she would not heed     What I melodied     In my soul's sore need -     She would not heed.     Cassiopeia overhead,     And the Seven of the Wain, heard what I said     As I bent me there, and voiced, and fingered     Upon the strings. . . . Long, long I lingered:     Only the curtains hid from her     One whom caprice had bid from her;     But she did not come,     And my heart grew numb     And dull my strum;     She did not come.

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