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You and I have found the secret way, / None can bar our love or say us nay: / All the world may stare and never know / You and I are twined together so.
You and I for all his vaunted width / Know the giant Space is but a myth; / Over miles and miles of pure deceit / You and I have found our lips can meet.
You and I have laughed the leagues apart / In the soft delight of heart to heart.
If there's a gulf to meet or limit set, / You and I have never found it yet.
You and I have trod the backward way / To the happy heart of yesterday, / To the love we felt in ages past.
You and I have found it still to last.
You and I have found the joy had birth / In the angel childhood of the earth, / Hid within the heart of man and maid.
You and I of Time are not afraid.
You and I can mock his fabled wing, / For a kiss is an immortal thing.
And the throb wherein those old lips met / Is a living music in us yet.