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I	A
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Because the currents of our love are poured	B
Through the slow welter of the primal flood	C
From some blind source of monster haunted mud	C
And flung together by random forces stored	B
Ere the vast void with rushing worlds was scored	B
Because we know ourselves but the dim scud	C
Tossed from their heedless keels the sea blown bud	C
That wastes and scatters ere the wave has roared	B
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Because we have this knowledge in our veins	D
Shall we deny the journey's gathered lore	E
The great refusals and the long disdains	D
The stubborn questing for a phantom shore	E
The sleepless hopes and memorable pains	D
And all mortality's immortal gains	D
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II	A
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Because our kiss is as the moon to draw	F
The mounting waters of that red lit sea	G
That circles brain with sense and bids us be	G
The playthings of an elemental law	F
Shall we forego the deeper touch of awe	H
On love's extremest pinnacle where we	G
Winging the vistas of infinity	G
Gigantic on the mist our shadows saw	F
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Shall kinship with the dim first moving clod	G
Not draw the folded pinion from the soul	I
And shall we not by spirals vision trod	G
Reach upward to some still retreating goal	I
As earth escaping from the night's control	I
Drinks at the founts of morning like a god	G
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III	A
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All all is sweet in that commingled draught	G
Mysterious that life pours for lovers' thirst	G
And I would meet your passion as the first	G
Wild woodland woman met her captor's craft	G
Or as the Greek whose fearless beauty laughed	G
And doffed her raiment by the Attic flood	G
But in the streams of my belated blood	G
Flow all the warring potions love has quaffed	G
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How can I be to you the nymph who danced	G
Smooth by Ilissus as the plane tree's bole	I
Or how the Nereid whose drenched lashes glanced	G
Like sea flowers through the summer sea's long roll	I
I that have also been the nun entranced	G
Who night long held her Bridegroom in her soul	I
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IV	-
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Sad Immortality is dead you say	J
And all her grey brood banished from the soul	I
Life like the earth is now a rounded whole	I
The orb of man's dominion Live to day	J
And every sense in me leapt to obey	J
Seeing the routed phantoms backward roll	I
But from their waning throng a whisper stole	I
And touched the morning splendour with decay	J
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Sad Immortality is dead and we	G
The funeral train that bear her to her grave	-
Yet hath she left a two faced progeny	G
In hearts of men and some will always see	G
The skull beneath the wreath yet always crave	-
In every kiss the folded kiss to be	G
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V	G
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Yet for one rounded moment I will be	G
No more to you than what my lips may give	-
And in the circle of your kisses live	-
As in some island of a storm blown sea	G
Where the cold surges of infinity	G
Upon the outward reefs unheeded grieve	-
And the loud murmur of our blood shall weave	-
Primeval silences round you and me	G
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If in that moment we are all we are	K
We live enough Let this for all requite	G
Do I not know some winged things from far	K
Are borne along illimitable night	G
To dance their lives out in a single flight	G
Between the moonrise and the setting star	K
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VI	-
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The Moment came with sacramental cup	L
Lifted and all the vault of life grew bright	G
With tides of incommensurable light	G
But tremblingly I turned and covered up	L
My face before the wonder Down the slope	M
I heard her feet in irretrievable flight	G
And when I looked again my stricken sight	G
Saw night and rain in a dead world agrope	M
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Now walks her ghost beside me whispering	N
With lips derisive Thou that wouldst forego	O
What god assured thee that the cup I bring	N
Globes not in every drop the cosmic show	O
All that the insatiate heart of man can wring	N
From life's long vintage Now thou shalt not know	O
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VII	-
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Shall I not know I that could always catch	P
The sunrise in one beam along the wall	Q
The nests of June in April's mating call	Q
And ruinous autumn in the wind's first snatch	P
At summer's green impenetrable thatch	P
That always knew far off the secret fall	Q
Of a god's feet across the city's brawl	Q
The touch of silent fingers on my latch	P
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Not thou vain Moment Something more than thou	R
Shall write the score of what mine eyes have wept	G
The touch of kisses that have missed my brow	R
The murmur of wings that brushed me while I slept	G
And some mute angel in the breast even now	R
Measures my loss by all that I have kept	G
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VIII	-
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Strive we no more Some hearts are like the bright	G
Tree chequered spaces flecked with sun and shade	G
Where gathered in old days the youth and maid	G
To woo and weave their dances with the night	G
They cease their flutings and the next day's light	G
Finds the smooth green unconscious of their tread	G
And ready its velvet pliancies to spread	G
Under fresh feet till these in turn take flight	G
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But other hearts a long long road doth span	S
From some far region of old works and wars	T
And the weary armies of the thoughts of man	S
Have trampled it and furrowed it with scars	U
And sometimes husht a sacred caravan	S
Moves over it alone beneath the stars	U

Edith Wharton

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