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If thy desire had been for aught

Noble or honourable, not

For vileness which a vile heart taught

Thy tongue, thine eyes had drooped not so

With shame: thy tongue had voiced a thought

So honest, all the world might know.

Stand face to face with me a space,

Friend of my heart,

For one long gaze on thine eyes' grace

Before we part.

In the childhood of time, in the infancy

Of Heaven and Earth and Ocean's tide,

Dear friends were Leto and Niobe;

And these twain paced together beside