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And so I look upon your face again. / What have the years done for me since we met? / Which has prevailed, the joy of life or pain? / Do you recall our parting, or forget? / Show me your face. No! Turn it from my sight! / It is a mask. I would lay bare your heart. / You will not show me that? I have no right / To read it? . Then I know my doom. We part. / _Words for a Song._
In after days, when Veronica looked back upon that journey, it seemed to her as if it had lasted for months.