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WE two kept house, the Past and I, / The Past and I; / I tended while it hovered nigh, / Leaving me never alone. / It was a spectral housekeeping / Where fell no jarring tone, / As strange, as still a housekeeping / As ever has been known.
As daily I went up the stair / And down the stair, / I did not mind the Bygone there- / The Present once to me; / Its moving meek companionship / I wished might ever be, / There was in that companionship / Something of ecstasy.