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I WORKED no wile to meet you, / My sight was set elsewhere, / I sheered about to shun you, / And lent your life no care. / I was unprimed to greet you / At such a date and place, / Constraint alone had won you / Vision of my strange face!
You did not seek to see me / Then or at all, you said, / -Meant passing when you neared me, / But stumblingblocks forbade. / You even had thought to flee me, / By other mindings moved; / No influent star endeared me, / Unknown, unrecked, unproved!
What, then, was there to tell us / The flux of flustering hours / Of their own tide would bring us / By no device of ours / To where the daysprings well us / Heart-hydromels that cheer, / Till Time enearth and swing us / Round with the turning sphere.