My soul lives in my body's house,
And you have both the house and her --
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When the long day goes by
And I do not see your face,
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I said, "My youth is gone
Like a fire beaten out by the rain,
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They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;
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If I should see your eyes again,
I know how far their look would go --
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When we come home at night and close the door,
Standing together in the shadowy room,
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I said, "I have shut my heart
As one shuts an open door,
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I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
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When I talk with other men
I always think of you --
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I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me;
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When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache,
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You bound strong sandals on my feet,
You gave me bread and wine,
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If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,
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Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
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Alone in the night
On a dark hill
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I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,
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My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
I have less need now than when I was young
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I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
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A little while when I am gone
My life will live in music after me,
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As the waves of perfume, heliotrope,rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
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Your mind and mine are such great lovers they
Have freed themselves from cautious human clay,
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To-night I close my eyes and see
A strange procession passing me--
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Peace flows into me
As the tide to the pool by the shore;
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I have come the selfsame path
To the selfsame door,
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I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
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I love my hour of wind and light,
I love men's faces and their eyes,
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The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,
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When I am dying, let me know
That I loved the blowing snow
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It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where moonlight burned
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