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A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.

lxviii.

Or her, who knew that Love can vanquish Death,

Who kneeling, with one arm about her king,
Drew forth the poison with her balmy breath,
Sweet as new buds in Spring.

lxix.

No memory labours longer from the deep

Gold-mines of thought to lift the hidden ore
That glimpses, moving up, than I from sleep
To gather and tell o'er

lxx.

Each little sound and sight. With what dull pain

Compass'd, how eagerly I sought to strike
Into that wondrous track of dreams again!
But no two dreams are like.

lxxi.

As when a soul laments, which hath been blest,

Desiring what is mingled with past years,
In yearnings that can never be exprest
By signs or groans or tears;