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BEATRICE.
SWEET, I have sung of thee in many modes,If haply singing I might ease my pain;
And still the unwearying Fates bring me again
Back by the flowery and the thorny roads
To the old goal-point: still my soul forebodes
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And in my Occident the sunset's gold
Grows dim and sad above the lost abodes.
Dear, had I loved thee less or loved life more,
Had had more hope in men, in love less faith,
I should not now be seeking, as of yore,
For the faint sadness of dream-violets' breath;
I should not now be weaving, o'er and o'er,
These bitter melodies of Love and Death.
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