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The twilight fleeted away in pearl on the stream, / And night, like a diamond dome, stood still in our dream.
Your eyes like burnished stones or as stars were bright / With the sudden vision that made us one with the night.
We loved in infinite spaces, forgetting here / The breasts that were lit with life and the lips so near; / Till the wizard willows waved in the wind and drew / Me away from the fulness of love and down to you.
Our love was so vast that it filled the heavens up: / But the soft white form I held was an empty cup, / When the willows called me back to earth with their sigh, / And we moved as shades through the deep that was you and I.