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For many long uninterrupted years / She was the friend and confidant of Art; / They walked together, heart communed with heart / In that sweet comradeship that so endears. / Her fondest hopes, her sorrows and her fears / She told her mate; who would in turn impart / Important truths and secrets. But a dart, / Shot by that unskilled, mischievous boy, who peers / From ambush on us, struck one day her breast, / And Love sprang forth to kiss away her tears. / She thought his brow shone with a wondrous grace; / But, when she turned to introduce her guest / To Art, behold, she found an empty place, / The goddess fled, with sad, averted face.