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Two Travellers perishing
in Snow
The Forests as they
froze
Together heard them
strengthening
Each other with the
words
That Heaven if Heaven,
must contain
What Either left behind
And then the cheer
too solemn grew
For language, and the
Wind
Long steps across the
features took
That Love had touched
that Morn
With reverential Hyacinth -
The taleless Days went on
Till Mystery impatient drew
And those They left
behind
Led absent, were obtained
procured
of Heaven
As Those first furnished,
said -
Fame is the tint that
Scholars leave
Opon their Setting Names -
The Iris not of
Occident
That disappears as comes -
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