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/ What were sweet life without her / Who maketh all things sweet / With smiles that dream about her, / With dreams that come and fleet! / Soft moods that end in languor; / Soft words that end in sighs; / Curved frownings as of anger; / Cold silence of her eyes.
/ Sweet eyes born but for slaying, / Deep violet-dark and lost / In dreams of whilom Maying / In climes unstung of frost. / Wild eyes shot through with fire / God's light in godless years, / Brimmed wine-dark with desire, / A birth for dreams and tears.