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So was their sanctuary violated	A
So their fair college turned to hospital	B
At first with all confusion by and by	C
Sweet order lived again with other laws	D
A kindlier influence reigned and everywhere	E
Low voices with the ministering hand	F
Hung round the sick the maidens came they talked	G
They sang they read till she not fair began	H
To gather light and she that was became	I
Her former beauty treble and to and fro	J
With books with flowers with Angel offices	K
Like creatures native unto gracious act	L
And in their own clear element they moved	M
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But sadness on the soul of Ida fell	N
And hatred of her weakness blent with shame	I
Old studies failed seldom she spoke but oft	O
Clomb to the roofs and gazed alone for hours	P
On that disastrous leaguer swarms of men	Q
Darkening her female field void was her use	R
And she as one that climbs a peak to gaze	S
O'er land and main and sees a great black cloud	T
Drag inward from the deeps a wall of night	U
Blot out the slope of sea from verge to shore	V
And suck the blinding splendour from the sand	F
And quenching lake by lake and tarn by tarn	Q
Expunge the world so fared she gazing there	E
So blackened all her world in secret blank	W
And waste it seemed and vain till down she came	I
And found fair peace once more among the sick	X
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And twilight dawned and morn by morn the lark	Y
Shot up and shrilled in flickering gyres but I	C
Lay silent in the muffled cage of life	Z
And twilight gloomed and broader grown the bowers	P
Drew the great night into themselves and Heaven	Q
Star after Star arose and fell but I	C
Deeper than those weird doubts could reach me lay	A2
Quite sundered from the moving Universe	B2
Nor knew what eye was on me nor the hand	F
That nursed me more than infants in their sleep	C2
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But Psyche tended Florian with her oft	O
Melissa came for Blanche had gone but left	D2
Her child among us willing she should keep	C2
Court favour here and there the small bright head	E2
A light of healing glanced about the couch	F2
Or through the parted silks the tender face	G2
Peeped shining in upon the wounded man	Q
With blush and smile a medicine in themselves	H2
To wile the length from languorous hours and draw	I2
The sting from pain nor seemed it strange that soon	Q
He rose up whole and those fair charities	J2
Joined at her side nor stranger seemed that hears	K2
So gentle so employed should close in love	L2
Than when two dewdrops on the petals shake	M2
To the same sweet air and tremble deeper down	Q
And slip at once all fragrant into one	Q
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Less prosperously the second suit obtained	N2
At first with Psyche Not though Blanche had sworn	Q
That after that dark night among the fields	O2
She needs must wed him for her own good name	I
Not though he built upon the babe restored	P2
Nor though she liked him yielded she but feared	Q2
To incense the Head once more till on a day	A2
When Cyril pleaded Ida came behind	R2
Seen but of Psyche on her foot she hung	S2
A moment and she heard at which her face	G2
A little flushed and she past on but each	T2
Assumed from thence a half consent involved	U2
In stillness plighted troth and were at peace	V2
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Nor only these Love in the sacred halls	W2
Held carnival at will and flying struck	X2
With showers of random sweet on maid and man	Q
Nor did her father cease to press my claim	I
Nor did mine own now reconciled nor yet	Y2
Did those twin brothers risen again and whole	Z2
Nor Arac satiate with his victory	A3
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But I lay still and with me oft she sat	B3
Then came a change for sometimes I would catch	C3
Her hand in wild delirium gripe it hard	D3
And fling it like a viper off and shriek	E3
'You are not Ida ' clasp it once again	Q
And call her Ida though I knew her not	F3
And call her sweet as if in irony	A3
And call her hard and cold which seemed a truth	G3
And still she feared that I should lose my mind	R2
And often she believed that I should die	C
Till out of long frustration of her care	E
And pensive tendance in the all weary noons	H3
And watches in the dead the dark when clocks	I3
Throbbed thunder through the palace floors or called	J3
On flying Time from all their silver tongues	K3
And out of memories of her kindlier days	S
And sidelong glances at my father's grief	L3
And at the happy lovers heart in heart	M3
And out of hauntings of my spoken love	L2
And lonely listenings to my muttered dream	N3
And often feeling of the helpless hands	O3
And wordless broodings on the wasted cheek	E3
From all a closer interest flourished up	P3
Tenderness touch by touch and last to these	J2
Love like an Alpine harebell hung with tears	Q3
By some cold morning glacier frail at first	R3
And feeble all unconscious of itself	S3
But such as gathered colour day by day	A2
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Last I woke sane but well nigh close to death	T3
For weakness it was evening silent light	U
Slept on the painted walls wherein were wrought	U3
Two grand designs for on one side arose	V3
The women up in wild revolt and stormed	W3
At the Oppian Law Titanic shapes they crammed	X3
The forum and half crushed among the rest	Y3
A dwarf like Cato cowered On the other side	Z3
Hortensia spoke against the tax behind	R2
A train of dames by axe and eagle sat	B3
With all their foreheads drawn in Roman scowls	V3
And half the wolf's milk curdled in their veins	V3
The fierce triumvirs and before them paused	A4
Hortensia pleading angry was her face	V3
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I saw the forms I knew not where I was	V3
They did but look like hollow shows nor more	V
Sweet Ida palm to palm she sat the dew	B4
Dwelt in her eyes and softer all her shape	C4
And rounder seemed I moved I sighed a touch	D4
Came round my wrist and tears upon my hand	F
Then all for languor and self pity ran	Q
Mine down my face and with what life I had	E4
And like a flower that cannot all unfold	F4
So drenched it is with tempest to the sun	Q
Yet as it may turns toward him I on her	G4
Fixt my faint eyes and uttered whisperingly	Z2
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'If you be what I think you some sweet dream	N3
I would but ask you to fulfil yourself	S3
But if you be that Ida whom I knew	B4
I ask you nothing only if a dream	N3
Sweet dream be perfect I shall die tonight	U
Stoop down and seem to kiss me ere I die '	-
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I could no more but lay like one in trance	V3
That hears his burial talked of by his friends	V3
And cannot speak nor move nor make one sign	Q
But lies and dreads his doom She turned she paused	A4
She stooped and out of languor leapt a cry	C
Leapt fiery Passion from the brinks of death	T3
And I believed that in the living world	H4
My spirit closed with Ida's at the lips	V3
Till back I fell and from mine arms she rose	V3
Glowing all over noble shame and all	Z2
Her falser self slipt from her like a robe	I4
And left her woman lovelier in her mood	J4
Than in her mould that other when she came	I
From barren deeps to conquer all with love	L2
And down the streaming crystal dropt and she	A3
Far fleeted by the purple island sides	V3
Naked a double light in air and wave	K4
To meet her Graces where they decked her out	L4
For worship without end nor end of mine	Q
Stateliest for thee but mute she glided forth	M4
Nor glanced behind her and I sank and slept	N4
Filled through and through with Love a happy sleep	C2
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Deep in the night I woke she near me held	O4
A volume of the Poets of her land	F
There to herself all in low tones she read	E2
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'Now sleeps the crimson petal now the white	U
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk	P4
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font	Q4
The fire fly wakens wake thou with me	A3
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Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost	R4
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me	A3
	-
Now lies the Earth all Dana to the stars	V3
And all thy heart lies open unto me	A3
	-
Now lies the silent meteor on and leaves	V3
A shining furrow as thy thoughts in me	A3
	-
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up	P3
And slips into the bosom of the lake	M2
So fold thyself my dearest thou and slip	S4
Into my bosom and be lost in me '	-
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I heard her turn the page she found a small	Z2
Sweet Idyl and once more as low she read	E2
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'Come down O maid from	T4

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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