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Measured Steps

By Ernest Radford

Radford, Ernest (fl.1880-1920)

[epigraph]

PART I. MEASURED STEPS.

II.

PART II. FITS AND STARTS.

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[Sweet, on thy mouth a smile there played]

Sweet, on thy mouth a smile there played;
A smile that in my thought betrayed
The matter of thy reverie.

That while thy face thus lighted up,
Did Fancy's children laughingly
Squeeze pleasures in a golden cup
That Hope held up to thee?
(Ah, Fancy, trailing broken wing!
Ah, weary joys and sorrowing!—
Thy life must be a lovelier thing.)
Ah, stay not, love, with me!