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My only light is candle-light / From candles fitly set / In sconces, dazzling. / Long threads, half melting, cling / To snowy candle-masts, and fret / The straight, slim forms, and I shall sit / Alone, until the Spirit stirs / These lily lights (for they are conjurers). / From the high corners, shadows flit / Across the floor: and One shall bring / Back all my soul has loved and missed. / And the dim others fade when we have kissed. / But one remains, and I am one with it.
My only light is candle-light / From candles burning down / Till each flame flickers into night. / Is it the perfume slight / From shadow hair and shadow gown / Unseals my long-locked senses? Or, / Light touching hands and lips that fill / For me the waste of time, caress until / I live as I have lived before?
My only light shall be the candle's light, / To summon shades and mysteries / Until my solitary spirit sees / Your shadow steal across the shining floor.