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Then came thy voice: "O Love, wilt have my gift?"
I stretched my glad hands eagerly to grasp
The heaven-blown bird, gold-hued, and longed to clasp
It close and know it mine. Ere I might lift
The shining thing and hold it to my breast
Again I heard thy voice with vague unrest.
"These are twin birds and may not parted be."
Full in thine eyes I gazed, and read therein
The paradox of life, of love, of sin,
As on a night of cloud and mystery
One darting flash makes bright the hidden ways,
And feet tread knowingly though thick the haze.
Thy gift, if so I chose,--no other hand
Save thine.--I reached and gathered to my heart
The quivering, sentient things.--Sometimes I start
To know them hidden there.--If I should stand
Idly, some day, and _one_,--God help me!--breast
A homing breeze,--my _brown_ bird knows _its_ nest.
Dream-Song.
Cam'st thou not nigh to me
In that one glimpse of thee
When thy lips, tremblingly,
Said: "My Beloved.
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