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Oh unforgotten and only lover	A
Many years have swept us apart	B
But none of the long dividing seasons	C
Slay your memory in my heart	B
In the clash and clamour of things unlovely	D
My thoughts drift back to the times that were	A
When I possessing thy pale perfection	E
Kissed the eyes and caressed the hair	F
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Other passions and loves have drifted	G
Over this wandering restless soul	D
Rudderless chartless floating always	H
With some new current of chance control	D
But thine image is clear in the whirling waters	I
Ah forgive that I drag it there	F
For it is so part of my very being	J
That where I wander it too must fare	F
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Ah I have given thee strange companions	C
To thee so slender and chaste and cool	D
But a white star loses no glimmer of beauty	K
In all the mud of a miry pool	D
That holds the grace of its white reflection	E
Nothing could fleck thee nothing could stain	L
Thou hast made a home for thy delicate beauty	K
Where all things peaceful and lovely reign	L
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Doubtless the night that my soul remembers	I
Was a sin to thee and thine only one	E
Thou thinkest of it if thou thinkest ever	A
As a crime committed a deed ill done	E
But for me the broken the desert dweller	A
Following Life through its underways	I
I know if those midnights thou hadst not granted	G
I had not lived through these after days	I
	-
And that had been well for me all would say so	I
What have I done since I parted from thee	K
But things that are wasted and full of ruin	E
All unworthy even of me	K
Yet it was to me that the gift was given	E
No greater joy have the Gods above	M
That night of nights when my only lover	A
Though all reluctant granted me love	M
	-
For thy beauty was mine and my spirit knows it	N
Never ah never my heart forgets	I
One thing fixed in the torrent of changing	J
Faults and follies and fierce regrets	I
Thine eyes and thy hair that were lovely symbols	I
Of that white soul that their grace enshrined	O
They are part of me and my life for ever	A
In every fibre and cell entwined	O
	-
Men might argue that having known thee	K
I had grown faithful and pure as thee	K
Had turned at the touch of thy grace and glory	K
From the average pathways trodden by me	K
Hadst thou been kinder or I been stronger	A
It may be even these things had been	P
But one thing is clear to my soul for ever	A
I owe my owning of thee to sin	P
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Had I been colder I had not reached thee	K
Besmirched the ermine beflecked the snow	I
It was only sheer and desperate passion	E
That won thy beauty in years ago	I
And not for the highest virtues in Heaven	E
The utmost grace that the soul can name	Q
Would I resign what the sin has brought me	K
Which I hold glory and thou thy shame	Q
	-
I talk of sin in the usual fashion	E
But God knows what is a sin to me	K
We love more fiercely or love more faintly	K
But I doubt if it matters how these things be	K
The best and the worst of us all sink under	A
What I held passion and thou held'st lust	R
What name will it find in a few more seasons	I
When we both dissolve in an equal dust	R
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If a God there be and a God seems needed	G
To make the beauty of things like thee	K
He doubtless also some careless moment	S
Mixed the forces that fashioned me	K
Also He for His own good reason	E
Though I care little how these things are	T
Gave me thee in those few brief midnights	I
And that one solace He never can mar	T
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Ah me the stars of such varying heavens	I
Have watched me under such alien skies	I
Lay thy beauty naked before me	K
To soothe and solace my world worn eyes	I
For one good gift to me has been given	E
A memory accurate clear and keen	U
That holds the vision perfect for ever	A
In charm and glory of things once seen	U
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So I hold thee there and my fancy wanders	I
To each known beauty and blue veined place	I
I know how each separate eyelash trembles	I
And every shadow that sweeps thy face	I
And this is a joy of which none can rob me	K
This is a pleasure that none can mar	T
As sweet as thou wert in that long past midnight	V
Even as lovely my memories are	T
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Ah unforgotten and only lover	A
If ever I drift across thy thought	W
As even a vision unloved unlovely	K
May cross the fancy uncalled unsought	W
When the years that pass thee have shown in passing	J
That my love in its strength at least was rare	F
Wilt thou not think ah hope of the hopeless	I
E'en as thou wouldst not thou wilt not care	F

Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

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