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Dinah Maria Mulock - In The JuneTwilight
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IN the June twilight, in the soft gray twilight, 
The yellow sun-glow trembling through the rainy eve, 
As my love lay quiet, came the solemn fiat, 
"All these things forever--forever--thou must leave." 

My love she sank down quivering, like a pine in tempest shivering-- 
"I have had so little happiness as yet beneath the sun: 
I have called the shadow sunshine, and the merest frosty moonshine 
I have, weeping, blessed the Lord for, as if daylight had begun; 

"Till He sent a sudden angel, with a glorious sweet evangel, 
Who turned all my tears to pearl-gems, and crowned me--so little worth; 
Me!--and through the rainy even changed my poor earth into heaven, 
Or, by wondrous revelation, brought the heavens down to earth. 

"O the strangeness of the feeling!--O the infinite revealing-- 
To think how God must love me to have made me so content! 
Though I would have served Him humbly, and patiently, and dumbly, 
Without any angel standing in the pathway that I went." 

In the June twilight--in the lessening twilight-- 
My love cried from my bosom an exceeding bitter cry: 
"Lord, wait a little longer, until my soul is stronger,-- 
O, wait till Thou hast taught me to be content to die." 

Then the tender face, all woman, took a glory superhuman, 
And she seemed to watch for something, or see some I could not see: 
From my arms she rose full statured, all transfigured, queenly featured-- 
"As Thy will is done in heaven, so on earth still let it be." 

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I go lonely, I go lonely, and I feel that earth is only 
The vestibule of palaces whose courts we never win: 
Yet I see my palace shining, where my love sits, amaranths twining, 
And I know the gates stand open, and I shall enter in.
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