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from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand

Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore

Alone upon the threshold of my door

Of individual life, I shall command

The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand

Serenely in the sunshine as before,

Without the sense of that which I forbore,. .

Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land

Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine

With pulses that beat double. What I do

And what I dream include thee, as the wine

Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue

God for myself, He hears that name of thine,

And sees within my eyes, the tears of two.

face of all the world is changed, I think,

Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul

Move still, oh, still, beside me; as they stole

Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink

Of obvious death, where I who thought to sink

Was caught up into love and taught the whole

Of life in a new rhythm. The cup of dole

God gave for baptism, I am fain to drink,

And praise its sweetness, sweet, with thee anear.

The names of country, heaven, are changed away

For where thou art or shalt be, there or here;

And this. . this lute and song. . loved yesterday,

(The singing angels know) are only dear,

Because thy name moves right in what they say.