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 AFTER LONG ABSENCE: AS IT WAS

TOLD myself in singing words That you were changed and I was true I would not trust winds, waves and birds That change was not in you.

I sang love's dirge before we met "As murdered corpse in river bed In eyes my heart cannot forget I see Love lying dead!"

You came—one look—no word was spoken Our hands, once clasped, forgot to part And though our silence is unbroken Heart has found rest on heart.