Our lights are like the dawns which only

Seem bright to us and yet are not.

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Something you see in me I wis not:

Another heart in you I guess:

A stranger's lips—but thine I kiss not,

Erring in all my tenderness.

I sometimes think a mighty lover

Takes every burning kiss we give:

His lights are those which round us hover:

For him alone our lives we live.

Ah, sigh for us whose hearts unseeing

Point all their passionate love in vain,

And blinded in the joy of being,

Meet only when pain touches pain.

BROTHERHOOD

Twilight, a blossom grey in shadowy valleys dwells:

Under the radiant dark the deep blue-tinted bells

In quietness reïmage heaven within their blooms,

Sapphire and gold and mystery. What strange perfumes,

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