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JEALOUSY by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: YOUTH MET WITHIN A GARDEN

YOUTH met within a garden,
And youth to youth revealed
Time's loveliest hidden secrets,
Things that were dead and sealed:


What domes of ivory wonder
Rose in the golden race:
What heavens were fabled o'er them -
For some face like this face.


Youth roamed by shore and mountain
And its new wisdom told:
But earth and sea were silent,
Their lovely faces cold.




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