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First Line: This is love's ghost that I have met today
Last Line: And love is dead, for I have met love's ghost.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


This is Love's ghost that I have met to-day.
These are the same eyes, and the voice that speaks
The very voice, and those the very cheeks;
And yet, O God! how faint, how far away!
Out of another world you come to me,
And hollow, hollow, hollow as the tomb
Sound the indifferent words that speak my doom;
And hollow, hollow, hollow, can it be
My voice that sounds so strangely in my ears?
You bid me speak, and I, in dumb despair,
Forgetting all my agonies of prayer,
Beckon to you across a mist of tears.
All's over now: I know that you are lost,
And love is dead, for I have met Love's ghost.





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