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<h2> WAS IT THY FACE? </h2>
<p>Was it thy face I saw when, as a child,<br/>
Night after night I watched one quiet star<br/>
Shine ‘tween my curtain and the window-bar<br/>
Until I slept, and made my sleep more mild?<br/>
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Was it thy influence outreaching then<br/>
To me, o’er untrod years, o’er varying days,<br/>
To give me courage, as from phase to phase<br/>
Of youth’s desires I passed to deeds of men?<br/>
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Was it because the star was hid awhile,<br/>
That I in blindness wandered from my path;<br/>
That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile,<br/>
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And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath?<br/>
Another hand touched mine with sadness there,<br/>
And saved me till I saw thy face appear.<br/></p>
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