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SHE did not turn, / But passed foot-faint with averted head / In her gown of green, by the bobbing fern, / Though I leaned over the gate that led / From where we waited with table spread; / But she did not turn: / Why was she near there if love had fled?
She did not turn, / Though the gate was whence I had often sped / In the mists of morning to meet her, and learn / Her heart, when its moving moods I read / As a book-she mine, as she sometimes said; / But she did not turn, / And passed foot-faint with averted head.