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THE SHADE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: DARKER THAN NIGHT; AND, OH, MUCH DARKER, SHE
Last Line: TO GLOOMY HADES AND THE WHISPERING SHORE!

Darker than night; and, oh, much darker, she
Whose eyes in deep night darkness gaze on me.
No stars surround her; yet the moon seems hid
Afar somewhere, beneath that narrow lid.
She darkens against the darkness; and her face
Only by adding thought to thought I trace,
Limmed shadowily: O dream, return once more
To gloomy Hades and the whispering shore!



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