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Dear heart and love! what happiness to sit / And watch the firelight's varying shade and shine / On thy young face; and through those eyes of thine -- / As through glad windows -- mark fair fancies flit / In sumptuous chambers of thy soul's chaste wit / Like graceful women: then to take in mine / Thy hand, whose pressure brims my heart's divine / Hushed rapture as with music exquisite! / When I remember how thy look and touch / Sway, like the moon, my blood with ecstasy, / I dare not think to what fierce heaven might lead / Thy soft embrace; or in thy kiss how much / Sweet hell, -- beyond all help of me, -- might be, / Where I were lost, where I were lost indeed!