Excerpt: ...together, alive from the abyss, Clung the soul-wrung
implacable close kiss; And pity of self through all made broken
moan Which said, 'For once, for once, for once alone ' And still
Love sang, and what he sang was this: - III 'O ye, all ye that walk
in Willow-wood, That walk with hollow faces burning white; What
fathom-depth of soul-struck widowhood, What long, what longer
hours, one lifelong night, Ere ye again, who so in vain have wooed
Your last hope lost, who so in vain invite Your lips to that their
unforgotten food, Ere ye, ere ye again shall see the light Alas the
bitter banks in Willowwood, With tear-spurge wan, with blood-wort
burning red: Alas if ever such a pillow could Steep deep the soul
in sleep till she were dead, - Better all life forget her than this
thing, That Willowwood should hold her wandering ' IV So sang he:
and as meeting rose and rose Together cling through the wind's
wellaway Nor change at once, yet near the end of day The leaves
drop loosened where the heart-stain glows, - So when the song died
did the kiss unclose; And her face fell back drowned, and was as
grey As its grey eyes; and if it ever may Meet mine again I know
not if Love knows. Only I know that I leaned low and drank A long
draught from the water where she sank, Her breath and all her tears
and all her soul: And as I leaned, I know I felt Love's face
Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace, Till both our heads
were in his aureole. WITHOUT HER What of her glass without her? The
blank grey There where the pool is blind of the moon's face. Her
dress without her? The tossed empty space Of cloud-rack whence the
moon has passed away. Her paths without her? Day's appointed sway
Usurped by desolate night. Her pillowed place Without her? Tears,
ah me for love's good grace, And cold forgetfulness of...
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