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Expectant and waiting you muse / On the great rare thing which alone / To enhance your life you would choose: / The awakening of the stone, / The deeps where yourself you would lose.
In the dusk of the shelves, embossed / Shine the volumes in gold and browns, / And you think of countries once crossed, / Of pictures, of shimmering gowns / Of the women that you have lost.
And it comes to you then at last -- / And you rise for you are aware / Of a year in the far off past / With its wonder and fear and prayer.