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BETWEEN us now and here- / Two thrown together / Who are not wont to wear / Life's flushest feather- / Who see the scenes slide past, / The daytimes dimming fast, / Let there be truth at last, / Even if despair.
So thoroughly and long / Have you now known me, / So real in faith and strong / Have I now shown me, / That nothing needs disguise / Further in any wise, / Or asks or justifies / A guarded tongue.
Face unto face, then, say, / Eyes mine own meeting, / Is your heart far away, / Or with mine beating? / When false things are brought low, / And swift things have grown slow, / Feigning like froth shall go, / Faith be for aye.