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 —And seemed to hold her through her love come back, Unforeseen, and how come, she could not tell; So that the wrath of it, the grief could rack Her heart,—yet her heart craved therewith to dwell.

He was her husband—it should ever seem; And that home, surely it was still her home; And years since some long voyage or a dream; And now no more the heart was fain to roam:

Nay, but was true to where it felt begin Love and the rosy ecstasies so brief; And that was surely love and the rest sin, That all delight and all the other grief.

And now though none should render her heart's right In any fair place where she used to sit, She would have prayed for a mere alien's sight Of all it was so little pain to quit: