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Walter de la Mare - The WidowWalter de la Mare - The Widow
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Grief hath pacified her face; Even hope might share so still a place; Yet, on the silence of her heart, Haply, if a strange footfall start, Or a chance word of ecstasy Cry through dim cloistered memory, Into her eyes her soul will steal To gaze into the irrevocable As if death had not power to keep One who has loved her long asleep. Now all things lovely she looks on Seem lovely in oblivion; And all things mute what shall not be Richer than any melody. Her narrow hands, like birds that make A nest for some old instinct`s sake, Have hollowed a refuge for her face A narrow and a quiet place Where, far from the world`s light, she may See clearer what is passed away. And only little children know Through what dark gates her smile may go.
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