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NEW POEMS To each her emblem whisper sure

Love was awake an hour before.

Ah yes! an hour before ye woke

Low to my heart my emblem spoke,

And grave, as to renew an oath,

It I have kissed and blessed you both.

CLXV

AIR OF DIABELLI'S

ALL it to mind, O my love,

Dear were your eyes as the day,

Bright as the day and the sky;

Like the stream of gold and the sky above.

Dear were your eyes in the grey

We have lived, my love, O, we have lived, my love!

Now along the silent river, azure

Through the sky's inverted image

Softly swam the boat that bore our love,

Swiftly ran the shallow of our love

Through the heaven's inverted image

In the reedy mazes round the river.

See along the silent river,

See of old the lover's shallop steer.

Berried brake and reedy island,

Heaven below and only heaven above.

Through the sky's inverted image

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