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I tasted deep the hour
Between the far
Owl's chuckling first soft cry
And the first star.


A long stretched hour it was;
Nothing undone
Remained; the early seeds
All safely sown.


And now, hark at the rain,
Windless and light,
Half a kiss, half a tear,
Saying good-night.


WHEN WE TWO WALKED

When we two walked in Lent
We imagined that happiness
Was something different
And this was something less.


But happy were we to hide
Our happiness, not as they were
Who acted in their pride
Juno and Jupiter:


For the Gods in their jealousy
Murdered that wife and man,
And we that were wise live free
To recall our happiness then.


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