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A wan new garment of young green / Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair / And in me surged the strangest prayer / Ever in lover's heart hath been.
That I who saw your youth's bright page, / A rainbow change from robe to robe, / Might see you on this earthly globe, / Crowned with the silver crown of age.
Your dear hair powdered in strange guise, / Your dear face touched with colours pale: / And gazing through the mask and veil / The mirth of your immortal eyes.