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The years, wherein I never knew / Such beauty as is yours, -- so fraught / With truth and kindness looking through / Your loveliness, -- I count them naught, / O girl, so like a lily wrought! / The years wherein I knew not you.
Ah, let me see you always so! -- / A dream that haunts my memory's sight -- / Your hair of moonlight, face of snow, / And eyes, blue stars of laughing light, / O girl, so like a lily white! / Through all the years that come and go.
True to you only, in my heart / I wear your spirit miniature, / Sincere in simpleness of art, / That makes my love to still endure, / O girl, so like a lily pure! / Through years that keep us still apart.