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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?

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Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away, 'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.
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In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing Of Greece.
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But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
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When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, Learned all his dreaming from eyes. I bore in Greece a burning name, And I have been in Italy Madonna to a painter-lad, And mistress to a Medici. And have you heard (and I have heard) Of puzzled men with decorous mien, Who judged - the wench knew far too much - And burnt her on the Salem green?
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Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan, The moon.
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As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
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Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon's Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?
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No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabbas!
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