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A shaft of fire that falls like dew, / And melts and maddens all my blood, / From out thy spirit flashes through / The burning glass of womanhood.
Only so far; here must I stay: / Nearer I miss the light, the fire: / I must endure the torturing ray, / And, with all beauty, all desire.
Ah, time-long must the effort be, / And far the way that I must go / To bring my spirit unto thee, / Behind the glass, within the glow.