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Nay, brightest and most beautiful, deem naught

These frantic words, the reckless wind of thought:

Still stoop, still grant, — I live but in thy will;

Be what thou wilt, but be a woman still! Vainly I cried, nor could myself believe That what I prayed for I would fain receive.

My moon is set; my vision set with her; No more can worship vain my pulses stir. Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell, My heaven's queen, - queen, too, of my

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earth and hell!

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My heart, I cannot still it,
Nest that had song-birds in it;
And when the last shall go,
The dreary days, to fill it,
Instead of lark or linnet,
Shall whirl dead leaves and snow.

Had they been swallows only,
Without the passion stronger
That skyward longs and sings,
Woe's me, I shall be lonely
When I can feel no longer
The impatience of their wings!

A moment, sweet delusion,

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Like birds the brown leaves hover;
But it will not be long

Before the wild confusion
Fall wavering down to cover
The poet and his song.

(1888.)

1 Parts of the poem were written much earlier.

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