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Rh Music to passion; and

Weeping to sorrow;

Love to the heart that longs;

Moon to the sea;

Heaven to the earthborn soul,

And thou to me.

THE UNRETURNING

TWO YEARS

was the year the last of those before thee;

All my world till then but dark before the dawn.

If then I had died, O, never had I known thee,

Never had beheld thee; I who won, who own thee;

Who chose thee, who sing thee, crown thee, and adore thee;

O, death it were indeed to die before that dawn!