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GLAD old house of lichened stonework, / What I owed you in my lone work, / Noon and night! / Whensoever faint or ailing, / Letting go my grasp and failing, / You lent light.
How by that fair title came you? / Did some forward eye so name you / Knowing that one, / Sauntering down his century blindly, / Would remark your sound, so kindly, / And be won?
Smile in sunlight, sleep in moonlight, / Bask in April, May, and June-light, / Zephyr-fanned; / Let your chambers show no sorrow, / Blanching day, or stuporing morrow, / While they stand.