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| IN the wet dusk silver-sweet, | |
| Down the violet-scented ways, | |
| As I moved with quiet feet | |
| I was met by mighty days. | |
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| On the hedge the hanging dew | 5 |
| Glass’d the eve and stars and skies; | |
| While I gazed a madness grew | |
| Into thunder’d battle-cries. | |
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| Where the hawthorn glimmer’d white, | |
| Flashed the spear and fell the stroke, | 10 |
| Ah, what faces pale and bright | |
| Where the dazzling battle broke! | |
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| There a hero-hearted queen | |
| With young beauty lit the van. | |
| Gone! the darkness flow’d between | 15 |
| All the ancient wars of man. | |
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| While I paced the valley’s gloom, | |
| Where the rabbits patter’d near, | |
| Shone a temple and a tomb | |
| With a legend carven clear: | 20 |
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| Time put by a myriad fates | |
| That her day might dawn in glory: | |
| Death made wide a million gates | |
| So to close her tragic story. | |
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