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He touched me, so I live to know
That such a day, persuaded so -
Accepted so -
permitted so,
I perished
I dwelt -
I groped opon his breast -
It was a boundless place to me
And silenced, as the awful Sea
Puts minor streams to rest.
And now, I'm different from before,
As if I breathed superior air -
Or brushed a Royal Gown -
My feet, too, that had wandered so -
My Gypsy face - transfigured now -
To tenderer Renown -
Into this Port, if I might come,
Rebecca, to Jerusalem,
Would not so ravished turn -
Nor Persian, baffled at her shrine
Lift such a Crucifixal sign
To her imperial Sun.
I had the Glory - that will do -
An Honor, Thought can
turn her to
When lesser Fames invite -
With one long "Nay" -
Bliss' early shape
Deforming - Dwindling - Gulphing up -
Time's possibility -
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