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Lord, long content I wandered in the night: Knowing not light, the dark seemed good to me,Then didst thou curse me with divinest sight, A space I looked on Love’s divinity.Ah, God, if I had never known that light, I ne’er had known how dark these shadows be.

C. J. O’Regan

CXXII.

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One eve I saw the hills all flushed with light,And burnished with the gold of sunset glow— The flaming gold of sunset glow.
Next morn, when I arose, the hills were white,All gleaming cold, and white with early snow; And lowering skies above the snow.
One day I plucked a rose that pleased my sight;But in my garden now no roses blow— No more for me red roses blow!
So was my joyous youth gone in a night,And Love!—Love left me, ah! so long ago I scarce remember it—so long ago !

Maud Goodenough Hayter

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