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WAKE, do you wake in the dark in the strange far place, / Window and door not set like the ones we knew, / Leaning your face through the dark for another face, / Stretching your arms to the arms that are far from you, / Even as I, through the depth of this darkness, do?
Sleep, do you sleep in the house in the lonely land? / In the lonely room do you hear no steps draw near? / Do you miss in the darkness the hand that implores your hand, / See through the darkness your last dream disappear, / And weep, as I weep, in the outer darkness here?
Dream, do you dream? Nay, never a dream will stay, / Never a phantom is fond, or a vision kind.
Your dreams elude you and fly through the dark my way, / My dreams fly forth to you whom they may not find; / And we in the darkness weep, we weep and are left behind.