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I	A
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We moved with pensive paces	B
I and he	C
And bent our faded faces	D
Wistfully	C
For something troubled him and troubled me	C
	-
The lanthorn feebly lightened	E
Our grey hall	F
Where ancient brands had brightened	E
Hearth and wall	F
And shapes long vanished whither vanish all	F
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'O why Love nightly daily '	-
I had said	G
'Dost sigh and smile so palely	F
As if shed	G
Were all Life's blossoms all its dear things dead '	-
	-
'Since silence sets thee grieving '	-
He replied	H
'And I abhor deceiving	I
One so tried	H
Why Love I'll speak ere time us twain divide '	-
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He held me I remember	J
Just as when	K
Our life was June September	J
It was then	K
And we walked on until he spoke again	K
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'Susie an Irish mummer	J
Loud acclaimed	L
Through the gay London summer	J
Was I named	L
A master in my art who would be famed	L
	-
'But lo there beamed before me	C
Lady Su	M
God's altar vow she swore me	C
When none knew	M
And for her sake I bade the sock adieu	M
	-
'My Lord your father's pardon	N
Thus I won	N
He let his heart unharden	N
Towards his son	N
And honourably condoned what we had done	N
	-
'But said recall you dearest	O
As for Su	M
I'd see her ay though nearest	O
Me unto	M
Sooner entombed than in a stage purlieu	F
	-
'Just so And here he housed us	P
In this nook	Q
Where Love like balm has drowsed us	P
Robin rook	Q
Our chief familiars next to string and book	Q
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'Our days here peace enshrouded	R
Followed strange	S
The old stage joyance crowded	R
Rich in range	S
But never did my soul desire a change	S
	-
'Till now when far uncertain	N
Lips of yore	J
Call call me to the curtain	N
There once more	J
But ONCE to tread the boards I trod before	J
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'A night the last and single	F
Ere I die	A
To face the lights to mingle	F
As did I	A
Once in the game and rivet every eye '	-
	-
'To something drear distressing	I
As the knell	F
Of all hopes worth possessing '	-
What befell	F
Seemed linked with me but how I could not tell	F
	-
Hours passed till I implored him	T
As he knew	M
How faith and frankness toward him	T
Ruled me through	M
To say what ill I had done and could undo	M
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'FAITH FRANKNESS Ah Heaven save such '	-
Murmured he	C
'They are wedded wealth I gave such	U
Liberally	C
But you Dear not For you suspected me '	-
	-
I was about beseeching	I
In hurt haste	V
More meaning when he reaching	I
To my waist	V
Led me to pace the hall as once we paced	V
	-
'I never meant to draw you	M
To own all '	-
Declared he 'But I SAW you	M
By the wall	F
Half hid And that was why I failed withal '	-
	-
'Where when ' said I 'Why nigh me	C
At the play	F
That night That you should spy me	C
Doubt my fay	F
And follow furtive took my heart away '	-
	-
That I had never been there	J
But had gone	N
To my locked room unseen there	J
Curtains drawn	N
Long days abiding told I wonder wan	N
	-
'Nay 'twas your form and vesture	J
Cloak and gown	N
Your hooded features gesture	J
Half in frown	N
That faced me pale ' he urged 'that night in town	N
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'And when outside I handed	R
To her chair	J
As courtesy demanded	R
Of me there	J
The leading lady you peeped from the stair	J
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Straight pleaded I 'Forsooth Love	W
Had I gone	N
I must have been in truth Love	W
Mad to don	N
Such well known raiment ' But he still went on	N
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That he was not mistaken	N
Nor misled	G
I felt like one forsaken	N
Wished me dead	G
That he could think thus of the wife he had wed	G
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His going seemed to waste him	T
Like a curse	X
To wreck what once had graced him	T
And averse	X
To my approach he mused and moped and worse	X
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Till what no words effected	R
Thought achieved	Y
IT WAS MY WRAITH projected	R
He conceived	Y
Thither by my tense brain at home aggrieved	Y
	-
Thereon his credence centred	Y
Till he died	Y
And no more tempted entered	Y
Sanctified	Y
The little vault with room for one beside	Y
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III	A
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Thus far the lady's story	J
Now she too	Y
Reclines within that hoary	J
Last dark mew	Y
In Mellstock Quire with him she loved so true	Y
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A yellowing marble placed there	J
Tablet wise	Z
And two joined hearts enchased there	J
Meet the eyes	Z
And reading their twin names we moralize	Z
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Did she we wonder follow	F
Jealously	J
And were those protests hollow	F
Or saw he	J
Some semblant dame Or can wraiths really be	J
	-
Were it she went her honour	J
All may hold	Y
Pressed truth at last upon her	J
Till she told	Y
Him only others as these lines unfold	Y
	-
Riddle death sealed for ever	J
Let it rest	Y
One's heart could blame her never	J
If one guessed	Y
That go she did She knew her actor best	Y

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