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I. Let me forget her face! / So fresh, so lovely! the abiding place / Of tears and smiles that won my heart to her; / Of dreams and moods that moved my soul's dim deeps, / As strong winds stir / Dark waters where the starlight glimmering sleeps. -- / In every lineament the mind can trace, / Let me forget her face!
II. Let me forget her form! / Soft and seductive, that contained each charm, / Each grace the sweet word maidenhood implies; / And all the sensuous youth of line and curve, / That makes men's eyes / Bondsmen of beauty eager still to serve. -- / In every part that memory can warm, / Let me forget her form!
III. Let me forget her, God! / Her who made honeyed love a bitter rod / To scourge my heart with, barren with despair; / To tear my soul with, sick with vain desire! -- / Oh, hear my prayer! / Out of the hell of love's unquenchable fire / I cry to thee, with face against the sod, / Let me forget her, God!