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/ When pearl and gold, o'er deeps of musk, / The moon curves, silvering the dusk, -- / As in a garden, dreaming, / A lily slips its dewy husk / A firefly in its gleaming, -- / I of my garden am a guest; / My garden, that, in beauty dressed / Of simple shrubs and oldtime flowers, / Chats with me of the perished hours, / When _she_ companioned me in life, / Living remote from care and strife.
/ It says to me: "How sad and slow / The hours of daylight come and go, / Until the Night walks here again / With moon and starlight in her train, / And she and I with perfumed words / Of winds and waters, dreaming birds, / And flowers and crickets and the moon, / For hour on hour, in soul commune. -- " / And you, and you, / Sit here and listen in the dew / For her, the love, you used to know, / Who often walked here, long ago, / Long ago; / The young, sweet love you used to know / Long ago / Whom oft I watched with violet eye, / Or eye of dew, as she passed by: / As she passed by.