"Now I knew I lost her -" (1274)

Now I knew I lost her -

Not that she was gone -

But Remoteness travelled

On her Face and Tongue.

Alien, though adjoining

As a Foreign Race -

Traversed she though pausing

Latitudeless Place.

Elements Unaltered -

Universe the same

But Love's transmigration -

Somehow this had come -

Henceforth to remember

Nature took the Day

I had paid so much for -

His is Penury

Not who toils for Freedom

Or for Family

But the Restitution

Of Idolatry.

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