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THE TEMPORARY THE ALL
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellow-like, and despite divergence, Friends interlinked us.
Thwart my wistful way did a damsel saunter, Fair, the while unformed to be all-eclipsing; "Maiden meet," held I, "till arise my forefelt Wonder of women."
Long a visioned hermitage deep desiring, Tenements uncouth I was fain to house in; "Let such lodging be for a breath-while," thought I, "Soon a more seemly.
"Then, high handiwork will I make my life-deed, Truth and Light outshow; but the ripe time pending, Intermissive aim at the thing sufficeth." Thus I . . . But lo, me!
Mistress, friend, place, aims to be bettered straightway, Bettered not has Fate or my hand's achieving; Sole the showance those of my onward earth-track-- Never transcended!
AMABEL
I MARKED her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell My Amabel?"
I looked upon her gown, Once rose, now earthen brown; The change was like the knell Of Amabel.
Her step's mechanic ways Had lost the life of May's; Her laugh, once sweet in swell, Spoilt Amabel.
I mused: "Who sings the strain I sang ere warmth did wane? Who thinks its numbers spell His Amabel?"--
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