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If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams / Of bliss and blasphemy came true, / If skies were green and snow were gold, / And you loved me as I love you;
O long light hands and curled brown hair, / And eyes where sits a naked soul; / Dare I even then draw near and burn / My fingers in the aureole?
Yes, in the one wise foolish hour / God gives this strange strength to a man. / He can demand, though not deserve, / Where ask he cannot, seize he can.
But once the blood's wild wedding o'er, / Were not dread his, half dark desire, / To see the Christ-child in the cot, / The Virgin Mary by the fire?