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Too Late

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Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours;     Too late to bring the true love that endures;     Too long, unthrift, I gave it here and there,     Spent it in idle love and idle song;     Youth seemed so rich, with kisses all to spare -     Too late! too long!     Too late, O fairy woman; dreams and dust     Are in your hair, your face is dimly thrust     Among the flowers; and Time, that all forgets,     Even you forgets, and only I prolong     The face I love, with ache of vain regrets -     Too late! too long!     Too long I tarried, and too late I come,     O eyes and lips so strangely sealed and dumb:     My heart - what is it now, beloved, to you?     My love - that doth your holy silence wrong?     Ah! fairy face, star-crowned and chrismed with dew -     Too late! too long!

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