Antinous
She smiled, and said with soft disdain, "His statue cannot see or hear:
If you should kneel forever, dear, he would not know, you kneel in vain."
If you should kneel forever, dear, he would not know, you kneel in vain."
Yet all night long, oh, my Desire, I watched beside you, pale and dumb;
And now the silver Dawn has come: the sky is stained with scarlet fire.
And now the silver Dawn has come: the sky is stained with scarlet fire.
The faint light widens to fair day round a white statue: the birds sing,
But you will never wake, my King, though love should kiss your lips away.
But you will never wake, my King, though love should kiss your lips away.
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