No girdle hath weaver or goldsmith wrought
So rich as the arms of my love can be;
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What days await this woman, whose strange feet
Breathe spells, whose presence makes men dream like wine,
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The glittering roofs are still with frost; each worn
Black chimney builds into the quiet sky
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Heavy with haze that merges and melts free
Into the measureless depth on either hand,
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Oh city, whom grey stormy hands have sown,
With restless drift, scarce broken now of any,
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Oh earth, oh dewy mother, breathe on us
Something of all thy beauty and thy might,
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With what doubting eyes, oh sparrow,
Thou regardest me,
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Oh night and sleep,
Ye are so soft and deep,
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Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side
The scythe-swept fields are silent. Slowly home
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A moment the wild swallows like a flight
Of withered gust-caught leaves, serenely high,
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By a void and soundless river
On the outer edge of space,
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Underneath a tree at noontide
Abu Midjan sits distressed,
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For three whole days across the sky,
In sullen packs that loomed and broke,
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In the silent depth of space,
Immeasurably old, immeasurably far,
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The dew is gleaming in the grass,
The morning hours are seven,
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Already in the dew-wrapped vineyards dry
Dense weights of heat press down. The large bright drops
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Long hours ago, while yet the morn was blithe,
Nor sharp athirst had drunk the beaded dew,
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I love the warm bare earth and all
That works and dreams thereon:
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How the returning days, one after one,
Came ever in their rhythmic round, unchanged,
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No wind there is that either pipes or moans;
The fields are cold and still; the sky
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I heard the city time-bells call
Far off in hollow towers,
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One moment, the slim cloudflakes seem to lean
With their sad sunward faces aureoled,
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AEons ago ye were,
Before the struggling changeful race of man
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Even as I watched the daylight how it sped
From noon till eve, and saw the light wind pass
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Pale season, watcher in unvexed suspense,
Still priestess of the patient middle day,
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T-day the world is wide and fair
With sunny fields of lucid air,
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How deep the April night is in its noon,
The hopeful, solemn, many-murmured night!
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Oh deep-eyed brothers was there ever here,
Or is there now, or shall there sometime be
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On such a day the shrunken stream
Spends its last water and runs dry;
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Under the day-long sun there is life and mirth &nbs
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