And shake the darkness from their loosened manes,

And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.

Lo! ever thus thou growest beautiful In silence, then before thine answer given Departest, and thy tears are on my cheek. 45 Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,

And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? 'The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.'

Ay me! ay me! with what another heart 50 In days far-off, and with what other eyes I used to watch - if I be he that watched The lucid outline forming round thee; saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood

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Wheer 'asta bean saw long and. mea liggin' 'ere aloan?

Noorse? thoort nowt o' a noorse; whoy, Doctor's abean an' agoan;

Says that I moant 'a naw moor aale, but I beant a fool;

Git ma my aale, fur I beant a-gawin' to break my rule.

Doctors, they knaws nowt, fur a says what's nawways true;

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Naw soort o' koind o' use to saay the things that a do.

I've 'ed my point o' aale ivry noight sin' I bean 'ere.

An' I've 'ed my quart ivry market-noight for foorty year.

Parson's a bean loikewoise, an' a sittin' ere o' my bed.

'The Amoighty 's a taakin o' you to 'issén, my friend,' a said,

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