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(Girl’s Song) In Babylon, in Nineveh, And long ago, and far away, The lilies and the lotus blew That are my sweet of youth to-day.
With night’s Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.
You nor I nor nobody knows Where our daily-taken breath Vanisheth and vanisheth: Where our lost breath’s flying goe… You nor I nor nobody knows.
Listen . . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break f… And fall.
Behold her, Running through the waves Eager to reach the land; The water laps her, Sun and wind are on her,
Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but
Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief mu… With me through Eternity, Such thy power, memory.
As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying -
THE old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that… Should weep?
Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, –mo… And sweet.
Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I’ll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun’s Gold flood.
These be three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of… Just dead.
Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain. Oh, let thy bosom breathe its grie…
JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as st… A white moth flew . . . Why am I… So cold?
Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then… Then weep!