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First Line: WHERE THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW I COULD SEE
Last Line: INTO THE STARRY NIGHT YOU BREATHED MY NAME.
Subject(s): HOME;
Where through the open window I could see
The supper-table in the golden light
Of tall white candles -- brasses glinting bright
On the black gleaming board, and crockery,
Coloured like gardens of old Araby --
In your blue gown against the walls of white
You stood adream, and in the starry night
I felt strange loneliness steal over me.

You stood with eyes upon the candle flame
That kindled your thick hair to burnished gold,
As in a golden spell that seemed to hold
My heart's love rapt from me for evermore....
And then you stirred, and opening the door,
Into the starry night you breathed my name.



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