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(For Aline)
Now by what whim of wanton chance / Do radiant eyes know sombre days? / And feet that shod in light should dance / Walk weary and laborious ways?
But rays from Heaven, white and whole, / May penetrate the gloom of earth; / And tears but nourish, in your soul, / The glory of celestial mirth.
The darts of toil and sorrow, sent / Against your peaceful beauty, are / As foolish and as impotent / As winds that blow against a star.