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Shadows

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Shadows! the only shadows that I know     Are happy shadows of the light of you,     The radiance immortal shining through     Your sea-deep eyes up from the soul below;     Your shadow, like a rose's, on the grass     Where your feet pass.     The shadow of the dimple in your chin,     The shadow of the lashes of your eyes,     As on your cheek, soft as a moth, it lies;     And, as a church, I softly enter in     The solemn twilight of your mighty hair,     Down falling there.     These are Love's shadows, Love knows none but these:     Shadows that are the very soul of light,     As morning and the morning blossom bright,     Or jewelled shadows of moon-haunted seas;     The darkest shadows in this world of ours     Are made of flowers.

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"Shadows! the only shadows that I know..."

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