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Since first I met thee, Dear, and long before / I knew myself beloved, save by the sense / All women have, a shadowy confidence / Half-fear, that "feels" its bliss nor asks for more, / I have learned new desires, known Love's distress / Sounded the deepest depths of loneliness.
I was a child at heart, and lived alone, / Dreaming my dreams, as children may, at whiles, / Between their hours of play, and Earth's broad smiles / Allured my heart, and ocean's marvellous tone / Woke no strange echoes, and the woods' complain / Made chants sonorous, stirred no thoughts of pain.