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! I knew thee in thy land, Where I was strange to all: I heard thee; and were strange to me The words thy lips let fall.

I loved thee—for the Babel curse Was meant not for the heart: I parted from thee, in such way As those who love may part.

And now a change hath come to us, A sea doth rush between! I do not know if we can be Again as we have been.