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First Line: There is a madness out of wonder born
Last Line: Of decking lovers for their golden day.


There is a madness out of wonder born,
And out of madness comes a parching thirst;
So I who wandered stricken and forlorn
Was like a dreamer with his dream accursed.
And still I dreamt, and thought my heart would burst
With the great wonder of this world to share.
And then I saw a maid, that she was fair.

And wonder now is budding like the rose,
And wonder now is waxing like the sea,
And what may come no necromancer knows,
For what has never been, at last shall be.
Eternal lips have leaned to whisper me
The song which makes a deathless world the way
Of decking lovers for their golden day.




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