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A year! How slight a space When winged with ecstasy! (An eon dark to me.) He has brought her home--God lend me grace! To-night in the throng I shall see his face-- He has long forgotten me. A year! I have learned to smile, I have taught my eyes to lie, I have lived and laughed and sung--the while I have only longed to die.