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To Edith.

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"My sweet, my child, through all this night         Of dark and wind and rain,      Where thunder crashes, and the light         Sears the bewildered brain,      "It is your face, your lips, your eyes         I see rise up; I hear      Your voice that sobs and calls and cries,         Or shrills and mocks at fear.      "O this that's mine is yours as well,         For side by side our feet      Trod through these bitter brakes of hell.         Take it, my child, my sweet!"

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