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O sad, sad face and saddest eyes that ever
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Beheld the sun,
Whence came the grief that makes of all thy beauty
One sad sweet smile?

In this bright portrait where the painter fixed them
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I still behold
The eyes that gladdened and the lips that loved me,
And, gold on rose,

The cloud of hair that settles on one shoulder
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Slipped from its vest.
I almost hear thy Mitylenean love-song
In the spring night,

When the still air was odorous with blossoms
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And in the hour
Thy first wild girl's-love trembled into being,
Glad, glad and fond.

Ah, where is all that wonder? What God's malice
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Undid that joy
And set the seal of patient woe upon thee,
O my lost love?







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