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My body glows in every vein and blooms / To fullest flower since I first knew thee, / My walk unconscious pride and power assumes; / Who art thou then -- thou who awaitest me?
When from the past I draw myself the while / I lose old traits as leaves of autumn fall; / I only know the radiance of thy smile, / Like the soft gleam of stars, transforming all.
Through childhood's years I wandered unaware / Of shimmering visions my thoughts now arrests / To offer thee, as on an altar fair / That's lighted by the bright flame of thy hair / And wreathed by the blossoms of thy breasts.