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Edith Nesbit - The Veil Of Maya
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SWEET, I have loved before. I know
This longing that invades my days;
This shape that haunts life`s busy ways
I know since long and long ago.

This starry mystery of delight
That floats across my eager eyes,
This pain that makes earth Paradise,
These magic songs of day and night--

I know them for the things they are:
A passing pain, a longing fleet,
A shape that soon I shall not meet,
A fading dream of veil and star.

Yet, even as my lips proclaim
The wisdom that the years have lent,
Your absence is joy`s banishment,
And life`s one music is your name.

I love you to my heart`s hid core:
Those other loves? how should one learn
From marshlights how the great fires burn?
Ah, no! I never loved before!
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