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/ Here in the dusk I see her face again / As then I knew it, ere she fell asleep; / Renunciation glorifying pain / Of her soul's inmost deep.
/ I shall not see its like again! the brow / Of passive marble, purely aureoled, -- / As some pale lily in the afterglow, -- / With supernatural gold.
/ As if a rose should speak and, somehow heard / By some strange sense, the unembodied sound / Grow visible, her mouth was as a word / A sweet thought falters 'round.
/ So do I still remember eyes imbued / With far reflections -- as the stars suggest / The silence, purity and solitude / Of infinite peace and rest.
/ She was my all. I loved her as men love / A high desire, religion, an ideal -- / The meaning purpose in the loss whereof / God shall alone reveal.