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At night when Passion's ebbing tide	A
Left bare the Sands of Truth	B
Yasmini resting by my side	A
Spoke softly of her youth	B
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And one she said was tall and slim	C
Two crimson rose leaves made his mouth	D
And I was fain to follow him	C
Down to his village in the South	D
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He was to build a hut hard by	E
The stream where palms were growing	F
We were to live and love and lie	E
And watch the water flowing	F
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Ah dear delusive distant shore	G
By dreams of futile fancy gilt	H
The riverside we never saw	I
The palm leaf hut was never built	H
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One had a Tope of Mangoe trees	J
Where early morning noon and late	K
The Persian wheels with patient ease	J
Brought up their liquid silver freight	K
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And he was fain to rise and reach	L
That garden sloping to the sea	M
Whose groves along the wave swept beach	L
Should shelter him and love and me	M
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Doubtless upon that western shore	G
With ripe fruit falling to the ground	N
There dwells the Peace he hungered for	G
The lovely Peace we never found	N
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Then there came one with eager eyes	O
And keen sword ready for the fray	P
He missed the storms of Northern skies	O
The reckless raid and skirmish gay	P
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He rose from dreams of war's alarms	Q
To make his daggers keen and bright	R
Desiring in my very arms	Q
The fiercer rapture of the fight	R
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He left me soon too soon and sought	S
The stronger earlier love again	T
News reached me from the Cabul Court	U
Afterwards nothing doubtless slain	V
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Doubtless his brilliant haggard eyes	O
Long since took leave of life and light	R
And those lithe limbs I used to prize	O
Feasted the jackal and the kite	R
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But the most loved his sixteen years	W
Shone in his cheeks' transparent red	X
My kisses were his first my tears	Y
Fell on his face when he was dead	X
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He died he died I speak the truth	B
Though light love leave his memory dim	C
He was the Lover of my Youth	B
And all my youth went down with him	C
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For passion ebbs and passion flows	Z
But under every new caress	A2
The riven heart more keenly knows	Z
Its own inviolate faithfulness	Z
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Our Gods are kind and still deem fit	B2
As in old days with those to lie	E
Whose silent hearths are yet unlit	B2
By the soft light of infancy	Z
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Therefore one strange mysterious night	B2
Alone within the Temple shade	B2
Recipient of a God's delight	B2
I lay enraptured unafraid	B2
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Also to me the boon was given	C2
But mourning quickly followed mirth	D2
My son whose father stooped from Heaven	C2
Died in the moment of his birth	D2
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When from the war beyond the seas	Z
The reckless Lancers home returned	B2
Their spoils were laid across my knees	Z
About my lips their kisses burned	B2
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Back from the Comradeship of Death	E2
Free from the Friendship of the Sword	B2
With brilliant eyes and famished breath	E2
They came to me for their reward	B2
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Why do I tell you all these things	Z
Baring my life to you unsought	B2
When Passion folds his wearied wings	Z
Sleep should be follower never Thought	B2
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Ay let us sleep The window pane	V
Grows pale against the purple sky	E
The dawn is with us once again	T
The dawn which always means good bye	E
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Within her little trellised room beside the palm fringed sea	Z
She wakeful in the scented gloom spoke of her youth to me	Z

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