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I. Red roses, in the slender vases burning, / Breathed all upon the air, -- / The passion and the tenderness and yearning, / The waiting and the doubting and despair.
II. Still with the music of her voice was haunted, / Through all its charmed rhymes, / The open book of such a one as chanted / The things he dreamed in old, old summer-times.