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HELIOTROPE.
When wooed by sunny winds and skies
You deign for these but soft replies;
Yet rapture stirs your life when woo
The spells of darkness and of dew.
You deign for these but soft replies;
Yet rapture stirs your life when woo
The spells of darkness and of dew.
And all your fears take noiseless flight
Before the dusky kiss of night,
And all your love, in deep content,
Is given with dear abandonment!
Before the dusky kiss of night,
And all your love, in deep content,
Is given with dear abandonment!
And then down shadowed garden-ways
Your keen luxurious perfume strays,
As though a ghost should roam unseen,
That once was some voluptuous queen!
Your keen luxurious perfume strays,
As though a ghost should roam unseen,
That once was some voluptuous queen!
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