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One said unto a statue, “Thou art mine.
Silver and gold and corals have I thrown
Into the balance, and thou art mine own
To stand forever in my temple's shrine.
Silver and gold and corals have I thrown
Into the balance, and thou art mine own
To stand forever in my temple's shrine.
“Yet my blood foams not at thy sight like wine,
But aches with dull despair e'en to the bone,
For who may wed with pure impassive stone?
In vain, in vain for me thou art divine.
But aches with dull despair e'en to the bone,
For who may wed with pure impassive stone?
In vain, in vain for me thou art divine.
“Mine art thou, yet thou art not mine at all,
Thou art remoter than the utmost deep;
Two solitudes we are that yearn apart.”
Thou art remoter than the utmost deep;
Two solitudes we are that yearn apart.”
I thank the gulf set 'twixt us, and the wall,
The sea, the laws of man, since less I weep
The greater gulf of sin 'twixt heart and heart.
The sea, the laws of man, since less I weep
The greater gulf of sin 'twixt heart and heart.
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