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And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees
Didst glide away. Only thine eyes remained. v
They would not go they never yet have gone.
Lighting my lonely pathway home that night,

They have not left me (as my hopes have) since.
They follow me - they lead me through the years.
They are my ministers - yet I their slave.

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They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),

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And are far up in Heaven - the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the meridian glare of day
I see them still two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!

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