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A swift thought flashed to my mind that day / When I first saw you, regally tall / 'Mid a throng of pigmies--a very Saul-- / How some woman's heart must admit your sway, / Some woman's soul to your soul be thrall; / (And though not for me were the rapture to prove you, / I thrilled as I thought how a woman might love you!)
Then--strange that our eyes for a moment should meet / And hold each other a breathless space, / That a light as of dawn should leap into your face, / That the lips that were stern should an instant grow sweet-- / Ere you turned, at a word, with a courtier's grace. / (And I knew that tho' many a woman had loved you, / Till that moment, the glance of no woman had moved you!)