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[Fassett M. <je...@xa...>]

Hment, Until your ghostly lips and eyes Made wisdom unwise. Naught was
in me to tempt your feet To seek a lodging. Quite forgot Lay the sweet
solitude we two In childhood used to wander through; Time's cold had
closed my heart about; And shut you out. Well, and what then?... O
vision grave, Take all the little all I have! Strip me of what in
voiceless thought Life's kept of life, unhoped, unsought!-- Reverie and
dream that memory must Hide deep in dust! This only I say:--Though cold
and bare The haunted house you have chosen to share, Still 'neath its
walls the moonbeam goes And trembles on the untended rose; Still o'er
its broken roof-tree rise The starry arches of the skies; And in your
lightest word shall be The thunder of an ebbing sea. NOCTURNE 'Tis not
my voice now speaks; but a bird In darkling forest hollows a sweet
throat-- Pleads on till distant echo too hath heard And doubles every
note: So love that shrouded dwells in mystery Would cry and waken thee.
Thou Solitary, stir in thy still sleep; All the night waits thee, yet
thou still dream'st on. Furtive the shadows that about thee creep, And
cheat the shining footsteps of the moon: Unseal thine eyes, it is my
heart that sings, And beats in vain its wings. Lost in heaven's vague,
the stars burn softly through The world's dark latticings, we prisoned
stray Within its lovely labyrinth, and know Mute seraph