The Shadow.
Get you away! Is not the rose at flow'r? And list that song! The bird is in the sky! Ah, foolish one, I know your final hour, I know the very place where you shall lie. Silence! The music, and the bridal-train! Do you not see the maidens in their white? Along that whiteness, lo, I am the stain, And darken where the Lord of all shall smite! Yet leave me, Shadow, leave the day dear-bought When the swift runner reaches to the goal! That day is mine, and at the end, unsought, I ask the runner's body from his soul. Then hast thou all! The beautiful, the brave! Nothing untouched, dark Visitant, of thee! Oh blinded Reason! Sweeter for the grave. And fair a thousand-fold because of me!
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"Get you away! Is not the rose at flow'r?..."
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