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HIS is the story a man told me Of his life's one day of dreamery.

A woman came into his room Between the dawn and the creeping day: She was the years-wed wife from whom He had parted, and who lived far away, As if strangers they.

He wondered, and as she stood She put on youth in her look and air, And more was he wonderstruck as he viewed Her form and flesh bloom yet more fair While he watched her there;

Till she freshed to the pink and brown That were hers on the night when first they met,