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CLOISTERED by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WITHIN THE COMPASS OF MINE EYES
Last Line: THAT KINDRED LIFE AND MINE.

WITHIN the compass of mine eyes
Behold, a lordly city lies --
A world to me unknown,
Save that along its crowded ways
Moves one whose heart in other days
Was mated to mine own.

I ask no more; enough for me
One heaven above us both to see,
One calm horizon-line
Around us, like a mystic ring
That Love has set, encompassing
That kindred life and mine.



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