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I	A
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Ah yes 't is sweet still to remember	B
Though 'twere less painful to forget	C
For while my heart glows like an ember	B
Mine eyes with sorrow's drops are wet	C
And oh my heart is aching yet	C
It is a law of mortal pain	D
That old wounds long accounted well	E
Beneath the memory's potent spell	E
Will wake to life and bleed again	F
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So 't is with me it might be better	B
If I should turn no look behind	G
If I could curb my heart and fetter	B
From reminiscent gaze my mind	G
Or let my soul go blind go blind	G
But would I do it if I could	H
Nay ease at such a price were spurned	I
For since my love was once returned	I
All that I suffer seemeth good	H
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I know I know it is the fashion	J
When love has left some heart distressed	K
To weight the air with wordful passion	J
But I am glad that in my breast	K
I ever held so dear a guest	K
Love does not come at every nod	L
Or every voice that calleth hasten	J
He seeketh out some heart to chasten	J
And whips it wailing up to God	L
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Love is no random road wayfarer	B
Who where he may must sip his glass	M
Love is the King the Purple Wearer	B
Whose guard recks not of tree or grass	M
To blaze the way that he may pass	M
What if my heart be in the blast	N
That heralds his triumphant way	O
Shall I repine shall I not say	O
Rejoice my heart the King has passed	N
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In life each heart holds some sad story	B
The saddest ones are never told	P
I too have dreamed of fame and glory	B
And viewed the future bright with gold	P
But that is as a tale long told	P
Mine eyes have lost their youthful flash	Q
My cunning hand has lost its art	R
I am not old but in my heart	R
The ember lies beneath the ash	Q
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I loved Why not My heart was youthful	S
My mind was filled with healthy thought	T
He doubts not whose own self is truthful	S
Doubt by dishonesty is taught	T
So loved I boldly fearing naught	T
I did not walk this lowly earth	U
Mine was a newer higher sphere	B
Where youth was long and life was dear	B
And all save love was little worth	U
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Her likeness Would that I might limn it	V
As Love did with enduring art	R
Nor dust of days nor death may dim it	V
Where it lies graven on my heart	R
Of this sad fabric of my life a part	R
I would that I might paint her now	W
As I beheld her in that day	O
Ere her first bloom had passed away	O
And left the lines upon her brow	W
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A face serene that beaming brightly	B
Disarmed the hot sun's glances bold	P
A foot that kissed the ground so lightly	B
He frowned in wrath and deemed her cold	P
But loved her still though he was old	P
A form where every maiden grace	X
Bloomed to perfection's richest flower	B
The statued pose of conscious power	B
Like lithe limbed Dian's of the chase	X
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Beneath a brow too fair for frowning	Y
Like moon lit deeps that glass the skies	Z
Till all the hosts above seem drowning	Y
Looked forth her steadfast hazel eyes	Z
With gaze serene and purely wise	Z
And over all her tresses rare	B
Which when with his desire grown weak	A2
The Night bent down to kiss her cheek	A2
Entrapped and held him captive there	B
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This was Ione a spirit finer	B
Ne'er burned to ash its house of clay	O
A soul instinct with fire diviner	B
Ne'er fled athwart the face of day	O
And tempted Time with earthly stay	O
Her loveliness was not alone	B2
Of face and form and tresses' hue	C2
For aye a pure high soul shone through	C2
Her every act this was Ione	B
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II	A
	-
'T was in the radiant summer weather	B
When God looked smiling from the sky	A
And we went wand'ring much together	B
By wood and lane Ione and I	A
Attracted by the subtle tie	A
Of common thoughts and common tastes	D2
Of eyes whose vision saw the same	E2
And freely granted beauty's claim	E2
Where others found but worthless wastes	D2
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We paused to hear the far bells ringing	Y
Across the distance sweet and clear	B
We listened to the wild bird's singing	Y
The song he meant for his mate's ear	B
And deemed our chance to do so dear	B
We loved to watch the warrior Sun	J
With flaming shield and flaunting crest	K
Go striding down the gory West	K
When Day's long fight was fought and won	J
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And life became a different story	B
Where'er I looked I saw new light	F2
Earth's self assumed a greater glory	B
Mine eyes were cleared to fuller sight	F2
Then first I saw the need and might	F2
Of that fair band the singing throng	G2
Who gifted with the skill divine	H2
Take up the threads of life spun fine	H2
And weave them into soulful song	G2
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They sung for me whose passion pressing	Y
My soul found vent in song nor line	H2
They bore the burden of expressing	Y
All that I felt with art's design	H2
And every word of theirs was mine	H2
I read them to Ione ofttimes	D2
By hill and shore beneath fair skies	D2
And she looked deeply in mine eyes	D2
And knew my love spoke through their rhymes	D2
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Her life was like the stream that floweth	U
And mine was like the waiting sea	D2
Her love was like the flower that bloweth	U
And mine was like the searching bee	D2
I found her sweetness all for me	D2
God plied him in the mint of time	I2
And coined for us a golden day	O
And rolled it ringing down life's way	O
With love's sweet music in its chime	I2
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And God unclasped the Book of Ages	D2
And laid it open to our sight	F2
Upon the dimness of its pages	D2
So long consigned to rayless night	F2
He shed the glory of his light	F2
We read them well we read them long	G2
And ever thrilling did we see	D2
That love ruled all humanity	D2
The master passion pure and strong	G2
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III	A
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To day my skies are bare and ashen	J
And bend on me without a beam	J2
Since love is held the master passion	J
Its loss must be the pain supreme	J2
And grinning Fate has wrecked my dream	J2
But pardon dear departed Guest	K
I will not rant I will not rail	K2
For good the grain must feel the flail	K2
There are whom love has never blessed	K
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I had and have a younger brother	B
One whom I loved and love to day	O
As never fond and doting mother	B
Adored the babe who found its way	O
From heavenly scenes into her day	O
Oh he was full of youth's new wine	H2
A man on life's ascending slope	L2
Flushed with ambition full of hope	L2
And every wish of his was mine	H2
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A kingly youth the way before him	M2
Was thronged with victories to be won	J
So joyous too the heavens o'er him	M2
Were bright with an unchanging sun	J
His days with rhyme were overrun	J
Toil had not taught him Nature's prose	D2
Tears had not dimmed his brilliant eyes	D2
And sorrow had not made him wise	D2
His life was in the budding rose	D2
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I know not how I came to waken	J
Some instinct pricked my soul to sight	F2
My heart by some vague thrill was shaken	J
A thrill so true and yet so slight	F2
I hardly deemed I read aright	F2
As when a sleeper ign'rant why	A
Not knowing what mysterious hand	F2
Has called him out of slumberland	F2
Starts up to find some danger nigh	A
	-
Love is a guest that comes unbidden	J
But having come asserts his right	F2
He will not be repressed nor hidden	J
And so my brother's dawning plight	F2
Became uncovered to my sight	F2
Some sound mote in his passing tone	J
Caught in the meshes of my ear	B
Some little glance a shade too dear	B
Betrayed the love he bore Ione	J
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What could I do He was my brother	B
And young and full of hope and trust	F2
I could not dared not try to smother	B
His flame and turn his heart to dust	F2
I knew how oft life gives a crust	F2
To starving men who cry for bread	F2
But he was young so few his days	D2
He had not learned the great world's ways	D2
Nor Disappointment's volumes read	F2
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However fair and rich the booty	J
I could not make his loss my gain	J
For love is dear but dearer duty	J
And here my way was clear and plain	J
I saw how I could save him pain	J
And so with all my day grown dim	M2
That this loved brother's sun might shine	J
I joined his suit gave over mine	J
And sought Ione to plead for him	M2
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I found her in an eastern bower	B
Where all day long the am'rous sun	J
Lay by to woo a timid flower	B
This day his course was well nigh run	J
But still with lingering art he spun	J
Gold fancies on the shadowed wall	N2
The vines waved soft and green above	O2
And there where one might tell his love	O2
I told my griefs I told her all	N2
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I told her all and as she hearkened	J
A tear drop fell upon her dress	D2
With grief her flushing brow was darkened	J
One sob that she could not repress	D2
Betrayed the depths of her distress	D2
Upon her grief my sorrow fed	J
And I was bowed with unlived years	D2
My heart swelled with a sea of tears	D2
The tears my manhood could not shed	J
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The world is Rome and Fate is Nero	B
Disporting in the hour of doom	P2
God made us men times make the hero	B
But in that awful space of gloom	P2
I gave no thought but sorrow's room	P2
All all was dim within that bower	B
What time the sun divorced the day	J
And all the shadows glooming gray	J
Proclaimed the sadness of the hour	B
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She could not speak no word was needed	J
Her look half strength and half despair	B
Told me I had not vainly pleaded	J
That she would not ignore my prayer	B
And so she turned and left me there	B
And as she went so passed my bliss	D2
She loved me I could not mistake	Q2
But for her own and my love's sake	Q2
Her womanhood could rise to this	D2
	-
My wounded heart fled swift to cover	B
And life at times seemed very drear	B
My brother proved an ardent lover	B
What had so young a man to fear	B
He wed Ione within the year	B
No shadow clouds her tranquil brow	B
Men speak her husband's name with pride	J
While she sits honored at his side	J
She is she must be happy now	B
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I doubt the course I took no longer	B
Since those I love seem satisfied	J
The bond between them will grow stronger	B
As they go forward side by side	J
Then will my pains be jusfied	J
Their joy is mine and that is best	J
I am not totally bereft	J
For I have still the mem'ry left	J
Love stopped with me a Royal Guest	J