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Julian's room. The dusk of evening. Julian standing with his arms folded, and his eyes fixed on the floor.
Julian: I see her as I saw her then. She sat On a low chair, the child upon her knees, Not six months old. Radiant with motherhood, Her full face beamed upon the face below, Bent over it, as with love to ripen love; Till its intensity, like summer heat, Gathered a mist across her heaven of eyes, Which grew until it dropt in large slow tears, The earthly outcome of the heavenly thing! He walks toward the window, seats himself at a little table, and writes.