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IN years defaced and lost, / Two sat here, transport-tossed, / Lit by a living love / The wilted world knew nothing of: / Scared momently / By gaingivings, / Then hoping things / That could not be.
Of love and us no trace / Abides upon the place; / The sun and shadows wheel, / Season and season sereward steal; / Foul days and fair / Here, too, prevail, / And gust and gale / As everywhere.
But lonely shepherd souls / Who bask amid these knolls / May catch a faery sound / On sleepy noontides from the ground: / "O not again / Till Earth outwears / Shall love like theirs / Suffuse this glen! "