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XLI.
The golden crocus blows again,
But oh so different seems its brightness now!
I see it through a mist of pain:
The leaves seem altered on each budding bough.
But oh so different seems its brightness now!
I see it through a mist of pain:
The leaves seem altered on each budding bough.
Yea, all things take their colour from our thought:
The radiant waves
Will flash their countless gems for nought
On eyes that dream of graves.
The radiant waves
Will flash their countless gems for nought
On eyes that dream of graves.
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So must it ever be.
I saw the flowers, the summer skies,
The splendour of the sea,
Not through my own, but through my mother's eyes.
I saw the flowers, the summer skies,
The splendour of the sea,
Not through my own, but through my mother's eyes.
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