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THE RING
Miriam.
—those two Ghost lovers—

Father.
Lovers yet—

Miriam.
Yes, yes!

Father.
—but dead so long, gone up so far,
That now their ever-rising life has dwarf'd
Or lost the moment of their past on earth,
As we forget our wail at being born.
As if—

Miriam.
a dearer ghost had—