When my luck changed and they dared meet my face,

Crawled from obscurity, and set upon me

Those I had served and some that I had fed;

Yet never have I, now nor any time,

Complained of the people.'

All I could reply

Was: 'You, that have not lived in thought but deed,

Can have the purity of a natural force,

But I, whose virtues are the definitions

Of the analytic mind, can neither close

The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech.'

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And yet, because my heart leaped at her words,

I was abashed, and now they come to mind

After nine years, I sink my head abashed.

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HIS PHOENIX

There is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain,

And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard

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