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 Art thou asleep? or have thy wings Wearied of my unchanging skies? Or, haply, is it fading dreams Are in my eyes?

Not even an echo in my heart Tells me the courts thy feet trod last, Bare as a leafless wood it is, The summer past.

My inmost mind is like a book The reader dulls with lassitude, Wherein the same old lovely words Sound poor and rude.

Yet through this vapid surface, I Seem to see old-time deeps; I see, Past the dark painting of the hour, Life's ecstasy.

Only a moment; as when day Is set, and in the shade of night, Through all the clouds that compassed her, Stoops into sight