<h3><SPAN name="To_a_Passer-by" id="To_a_Passer-by"></SPAN>To a Passer-by</h3>
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Around me thundered the deafening noise of the street,<br/>
In mourning apparel, portraying majestic distress,<br/>
With queenly fingers, just lifting the hem of her dress,<br/>
A stately woman passed by with hurrying feet.<br/>
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Agile and noble, with limbs of perfect poise,<br/>
Ah, how I drank, thrilled through like a Being insane,<br/>
In her look, a dark sky, from whence springs forth the hurricane,<br/>
There lay but the sweetness that charms, and the joy that destroys.<br/>
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A flash—then the night.... O loveliness fugitive!<br/>
Whose glance has so suddenly caused me again to live,<br/>
Shall I not see you again till this life is o'er!<br/>
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Elsewhere, far away ... too late, perhaps never more,<br/>
For I know not whither you fly, nor you, where I go,<br/>
O soul that I would have loved, and <i>that</i> you know!<br/></p>
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