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She fears him, and will always ask
 * What fated her to choose him:

She meers in his engaging mask
 * All reasons to refuse him;

But what she meets and what she fears Are less than are the downward years, Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
 * Of age, were she to lose him

Between a blurred sagacity
 * That once had power to sound him,

And Love, that will not let him be
 * The seeker that she found him,

Her pride assuages her, almost, As if it were alone the cost. He sees that he will not be lost,
 * And waits, and looks around him.

A sense of ocean and old trees
 * Envelops and allures him:

Tradition, touching all he sees
 * Beguiles and reassures him;

And all her doubts of what he says Are dimmed with what she knows of days, ‘'Till even prejudice delays,
 * And fades—and she secures him.