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Can I forget how LOVE once led the ways / Of our two lives together, joining them; / How every hour was his anadem, / And every day a tablet in his praise! / Can I forget how, in his garden place, / Among the purple roses, stem to stem, / We heard the rumour of his robe's bright hem, / And saw the aureate radiance of his face! -- / Though I behold my soul's high dreams down-hurled, / And FALSEHOOD sit where Truth once towered white, / And in LOVE'S place, usurping lust and shame. / Though flowers be dead within the winter world, / Are flowers not there? and starless though the night, / Are stars not there, eternal and the same?