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Fitter to see Him, I
may be
For the long Hindrance -
Grace - to Me -
With Summers, and
with Winters, grow,
Some passing Year - a
trait bestow
To make Me fairest
of the Earth -
The Waiting - then - will
seem so worth
I shall impute with
half a pain
The blame that I was
common
chosen - then -
Time's
Time to anticipate His Gaze -
the
It's first - Delight - and
then - Surprise -
The turning o'er and o'er
my face
For Evidence it be the
Grace -
He left behind One Day -
So less
He seek conviction, That -
be This -
I only must not grow
so new
That He -
He'll mistake - and
ask for me
Of me - when first unto
the Door
I go - to Elsewhere go
no more
I only must not change
so fair
He'll sigh - "The Real One
Other -
She - is Where"?
The Love, tho', will instruct
array
me right
I shall be perfect - in
His sight -
If He perceive the other
Truth -
Opon an Excellenter Youth -
How sweet I shall not
lack in Vain -
But gain - thro' loss -
Through pain
Grief - obtain -
The Beauty that reward
Him best
most -
The Beauty of Belief -
Demand -
at Rest -
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