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Rh A fallen leaf of dusk the riding moon

Of your adoring shakes upon the grass.

Lo! I am she ye seek in every maid

Ye love and leave again. I am desire

Of woman that no man may slake in woman.

This thing am I,—a rose the world has dreamed.

'A rose the world has dreamed';—and I, I stood

Peak-high in those grey mountains of my mind

And saw all truth, all science, all the laws

Spread out beneath my feet. I sold all things

To know that all I knew was all the world

Of knowledge; and I bought—why, nothing then,—

Or only this at last—a space to know

That out beyond my farthest reach of thought

All knowledge shines—a radiance of stars.