The Golden Darkness/There Was a Time

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THERE WAS A TIME.

There was a time when I was shy and lonely,
 And stood in strange bewilderment apart,
And no one spoke to me, and silence only
 Would fold my songs into her tender heart.

There was a time when only windy darkness
 Would fan my dreams with glamoured loveliness,
But you have come,—and nights are filled with starkness
 And I am lonely for my loneliness.

Oh, you have come,—and silence is a stranger,
 And darkness keeps aloof from my distress,
And you—O you are all too fraught with danger,
 And I am lonely for my loneliness!