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Through you I entered heaven and hell, / Knew rapture and despair, / I flitted o'er the plains of earth / And scaled each shining stair: / Drank deep the waters of content, / And drained the cup of gall, / Was regal and was impotent, / Was suzerain and thrall.
Now, by Reflection's placid pool / On evening's mellowed brow, / I smile across the backward way / And pledge anew my vow; / For every glancing, golden gleam, / I offer gladly -- pain!
And I would give a thousand world / To live it all again!