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 JAMES STEPHENS

A smile for the parting,

A tear as they go,

God's sweethearting

Ends just so

Who 's that watching

Where the black winds blow?

He who is waiting In the rain outside, He who is standing Where the dew drops wide, He who is watching In the wind must ride

(Tho* the pale hands cling)

With the rose

And the ring

And the bride,

Must ride

With the red of the rose, And the gold of the ring, And the lips and the hair of the bride.

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��HEARD a bird at dawn Singing sweetly on a tree, That the dew was on the lawn, And the wind was on the lea; But I didn't listen to him, For he didn't sing to me!

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