("all nearness pauses, while a star...")

honour the past

but welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at this wedding)

never mind a world

with its villains or heroes

(for god likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth )

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow

all distance breathes a final dream of bells;

perfectly outlined against afterglow

are all amazing the and peaceful hills

(not where not here but neither's blue most both)

and history immeasurably is

wealthier by a single sweet day's death:

as not imagined secrecies comprise

goldenly huge whole the upfloating moon.

Time's a strange fellow;

more he gives than takes

(and he takes all) nor any marvel finds

quite disappearance but some keener makes

losing, gaining

- lovel if a world ends

more than all worlds begin to (see?) begin

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home

of knowledgeable shadows (quick to seize

each nothing which all soulless wraiths proclaim

substance; all heartless spectres, happiness )

lovers alone wear sunlight. The whole truth

not hid by matter; not by mind revealed

(more than all dying life, all living death)

and never which has been or will be told

sings only - and all lovers are the song.

Here (only here) is freedom: always here

no then of winter equals now of spring;

but april's day transcends november's year

(eternity being so sans until

twice i have lived forever in a smile)

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