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I know a garden where the lilies gleam,     And one who lingers in the sunshine there;     She is than white-stoled lily far more fair,     And oh, her eyes are heaven-lit with dream.     I know a garret, cold and dark and drear,     And one who toils and toils with tireless pen,     Until his brave, sad eyes grow weary - then     He seeks the stars, pale, silent as a seer.     And ah, it's strange, for desolate and dim     Between these two there rolls an ocean wide;     Yet he is in the garden by her side,     And she is in the garret there with him.

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