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I reached the cottage I knew it from the card	A
He had given me the low door heavily barred	A
Steep roof and two yews whispering on guard	A
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Dusk thickened as I came but I could smell	B
First red wallflower and an early hyacinth bell	B
And see dim primroses O I can tell	B
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I thought they love the flowers he loved The rain	C
Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again	D
As I brushed past and gemmed the window pane	C
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Bare was the window yet and the lamp bright	E
I saw them sitting there streamed with the light	E
That overflowed upon the enclosing night	E
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Poor things I wonder why they've lit up so	F
A voice said passing on the road below	F
Who are they asked another Don't you know	F
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Their voices crept away I heard no more	G
As I crossed the garden and knocked at the door	G
I waited then knocked louder than before	G
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And thrice and still in vain So on the grass	H
I stepped and tap tapped on the rainy glass	H
Then did a girl without turning towards me pass	H
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From the room I heard the heavy barred door creak	I
And a voice entreating from the doorway speak	I
Will you come this way a voice childlike and quick	J
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The way was dark I followed her white frock	K
Past the now chiming sweet tongued unseen clock	K
Into the room One figure like a rock	K
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Draped in an unstarred night his mother bowed	L
Unrising and unspeaking His aunt stood	M
And took my hand murmuring So good so good	M
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Never such quiet people had I known	N
Voices they scarcely needed they had grown	N
To talk less by the word than muted tone	N
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We'll soon have tea the girl said Please sit here	O
She pushed a heavy low deep seated chair	P
I knew at once was his and I sat there	P
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I could not look at them It seemed I made	Q
Noise in that quietness I was afraid	Q
To look or speak until the aunt's voice said	R
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You were his friend And that You were awoke	S
My sense and nervousness found voice and spoke	S
Of what he had been until a bullet broke	S
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A too brief friendship The rock like mother kept	T
Night still around her The aunt silently wept	T
And the girl into the screen's low shadow stept	T
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You were great friends said with calm voice the mother	U
I answered Never friend had such another	U
Then the girl's lips Nor sister such a brother	U
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Her words were like a sounding pebble cast	T
Into a hollow silence but at last	T
She moved and bending to my low chair passed	T
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Swift leaf like fingers o'er my face and said	T
You are not like him And as she turned her head	T
Into full light beneath the lamp's green shade	T
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I saw the sunken spaces of her eyes	V
Then her face listening to my dumb surprise	V
Forgive she said a blind girl's liberties	W
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You were his friend I wanted so to see	X
The friends my brother had Now let's have tea	X
She poured and passed a cup and cakes to me	X
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These are my cakes she smiled and as I ate	T
She talked and to the others cup and plate	T
Passed as they in their shadow and silence sat	T
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Thanks we are used to each other she said when I	Y
Rose in the awkwardness of seeing shy	Y
Of helping and of watching helplessly	X
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And from the manner of their hands 'twas clear	Z
They too were blind but I knew they could hear	O
My pitiful thoughts as I sat aching there	P
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I needs must talk until the girl was gone	A2
A while out of the room The lamp shone on	B2
But the true light out of the room was gone	A2
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Rose loved him so her mother said and sighed	T
He was our eyes he was our joy and pride	T
And all that's left is but to say he died	T
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She ceased as Rose returned Then as before	G
We talked and paused until Tell me once more	G
What was it he said And I told her once more	G
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She listened in her face was pride and pain	C
As in her mind's eye near he stood and plain	C
Then the thin leaves fell on my cheek again	D
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And on my hands He must have loved you well	B
She whispered as her hands from my hands fell	B
Silence flowed back with thoughts unspeakable	C2
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It was a painful thing to leave them there	P
Within the useless light and stirless air	P
Let me show you the way Mind there's a stair	P
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Here then another stair ten paces on	B2
Isn't there a moon Good bye	Y
And she was gone	A2
Full moon upon the drenched fruit garden shone	N

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