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O lady if until this hour	A
I've gazed in those bewildering eyes	B
Yet never owned their touching power	A
But when thou couldst not hear my sighs	B
It has not been that love has slept	C
One single moment in my soul	D
Or that on lip or look I kept	C
A stern and stoical control	D
But that I saw but that I felt	E
In every tone and glance of thine	F
Whate'er they spoke where'er they dwelt	E
How small how poor a part was mine	F
And that I deeply dearly knew	G
THAT hidden hopeless love confessed	H
The fatal words would lose me too	G
Even the weak friendship I possessed	H
And so I masked my secret well	I
The very love within my breast	H
Became the strange but potent spell	I
By which I forced it into rest	H
Yet there were times I scarce know how	J
These eager lips refrained to speak	K
Some kindly smile would light thy brow	J
And I grew passionate and weak	K
The secret sparkled at my eyes	B
And love but half repressed its sighs	B
Then had I gazed an instant more	L
Or dwelt one moment on that brow	J
I might have changed the smile it wore	L
To what perhaps it weareth now	J
And spite of all I feared to meet	M
Confessed that passion at thy feet	M
To save my heart to spare thine own	N
There was one remedy alone	N
I fled I shunned thy very touch	O
It cost me much O God how much	O
But if some burning tears were shed	P
Lady I let them freely flow	Q
At least they left unbreathed unsaid	P
A worse and wilder woe	Q
	-
But now NOW that we part indeed	R
And that I may not think as then	S
That as I wish or as I need	R
I may return again	S
Now that for months perhaps for years	T
I see no limit in my fears	T
My home shall be some distant spot	U
Where thou where even thy name is not	U
And since I shall not see the frown	V
Such wild mad language must bring down	V
Could I albeit I may not sue	G
In hope to bend thy steadfast will	W
Could I have breathed this word adieu	G
And kept my secret still	W
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Doubtless thou know'st the Hebrew story	X
The tale 's with me a favorite one	Y
How Raphael left the Courts of Glory	X
And walked with Judah's honored Son	Y
And how the twain together dwelt	E
And how they talked upon the road	Z
How often too they must have knelt	E
As equals to the same kind God	A2
And still the mortal never guessed	H
How much and deeply he was blessed	H
Till when the Angel's mission done	Y
The spell which drew him earthwards riven	Y
The lover saved the maiden won	Y
He plumed again his wings for Heaven	Y
O Madeline as unaware	B2
Thou hast been followed everywhere	B2
And girt and guarded by a love	C2
As warm as tender in its care	B2
As pure ay powerful in prayer	B2
As any saint above	C2
Like the bright inmate of the skies	B
It only looked with friendly eyes	B
And still had worn the illusive guise	B
And thus at least been half concealed	D2
But at this parting painful hour	A
It spreads its wings unfolds its power	A
And stands like Raphael revealed	D2
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More Lady I would wish to speak	K
But it were vain and words are weak	K
And now that I have bared my breast	H
Perchance thou wilt infer the rest	H
So so farewell I need not say	E2
I look I ask for no reply	F2
The cold and scarcely pitying nay	E2
I read in that unmelted eye	F2
Yet one dear favor let me pray	E2
Days months however slow to me	X
Must drag at last their length away	E2
And I return if not to thee	X
At least to breathe the same sweet air	B2
That wooes thy lips and waves thy hair	B2
Oh then these daring lines forgot	U
Look speak as thou hadst read them not	U
So Lady may I still retain	G2
A right I would not lose again	S
For all that gold or guilt can buy	F2
Or all that Heaven itself deny	F2
A right such love may justly claim	H2
Of seeing thee in friendship's name	H2
Give me but this and still at whiles	I2
A portion of thy faintest smiles	I2
It were enough to bless	J2
I may not dare not ask for more	L
Than boon so rich and yet so poor	K2
But I should die with less	J2

Henry Timrod

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