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Those were the days of doubt How clear	A
It all comes back This ribbon see	B
Brings that far past so very near	A
I lose my own identity	B
And seem two beings one that's here	C
And one back in that century	B
Of cowardice and fear	A
Wherein I met with love and her	D
When I was but a wanderer	D
Those were the days of doubt I said	E
I doubted all things even God	F
Within my heart there was no dread	E
Of Hell or Heaven Never a rod	F
Was there to smite no mercy led	E
And man's reward was death a clod	E
He was alive or dead	E
Those were the days of doubt and so	G
I scoffed at all things high and low	G
And then I met her Fair and frail	H
A girl whose soul was as a flame	I
That burns within the Holy Grael	H
And through her eyes shone clear the same	I
Fanatic fire pure and pale	H
That once put Sisera to shame	I
In the dark eyes of Jael	H
When leading him into her tent	E
She used the nail as argument	E
There was no argument of grace	J
She did not use no dogma wrought	E
Of sophistry she did not place	J
Before me leading up my thought	E
To Heaven from the fearful maze	K
Of Hell wherein God's angels fought	E
With fiends on darkling ways	K
I listened but in her young look	L
Was more for me than in God's Book	L
She seemed a priestess Heaven to be	B
Was in her face A ribbon bound	E
Her hair like a phylactery	D
This is the band I took it wound	E
And laid it on my heart Ah me	B
No other argument I found	E
As good as that Convincingly	B
It held me sane and sound	E
And I have kept it here alway	M
Since first she gave it me that day	E
'Where is she now' I do not know	G
She is the wife of one whose hand	E
Stretched forth to aid me long ago	G
Took from me more than all this land	E
In her own self and gave me woe	G
To take her place As here I stand	E
I stood and took the blow	G
While in my heart I looked and saw	N
The love that fiiled my soul with awe	M
And did she love me Am I sure	D
Ah while I heard angelic hosts	O
Of Heaven singing love there were	D
Black wings about me all the ghosts	O
Of all my doubts I heard them stir	D
And so drew back from those bright coasts	O
Of happiness with her	D
Despite the love within my heart	E
Doubt entered and began its part	E
Make no mistake I loved her ay	E
And she loved me as women love	P
The thing they save I spoke my lie	H
That by my lie I so might prove	Q
Her love and with the proof defy	H
The doubt whose shadow hung above	P
Watching with jealous eye	H
So I denied love Played a part	E
And playing it broke my own heart	E
The better part of me then died	E
I killed her love not mine You see	B
I keep this ribbon here she tied	E
My heart to hers with Silkenly	H
It says 'She is another's bride	E
Through me now keep in memory	B
Your doubt was justified	E
She did not love you She could change '	R
I keep the ribbon Is it strange	S

Madison Julius Cawein

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