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INNOMINATA.
(A PICTURE BY MARIANO FORTUNY Y MADRAZO).
A face upfloating through a shimmering seaOf dreams, resurgent whether from the Past
Of Time, meknoweth not, or if forecast
Upon the Present's glass, as yet to be,
From the dim dreamland of Futurity.
But this I know, of women, first and last,
This only she from the Eternal Vast
Of the World's Soul it is that speaks to me.
These are her lips, whom I have sought in vain
Through many a devious waste of nights and days;
These are her starry eyes, whose wax and wane
Still were my beacons in the dreamland's ways;
And never shall I take her by the hand,
Until Death bring me to the Unknown Land.
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