IX

I loved; but never could say

The words to her;

And waited, day by day,

Nursing the hope that lay

Under the doubts that were.--

X

She passed 'neath the iron arch

Of the legended ground;--

And the moon, like a twisted torch,

Burned over one lonesome larch;--

She passed with never a sound.

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