That Girl's Clear Eyes
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HAT girl's clear eyes utterly concealed allExcept that there was something to reveal.And what did mine say in the interval?No more: no less. They are but as a sealNot to be broken till after I am dead;And then vainly. Every one of usThis morning at our tasks left nothing said,In spite of many words. We were sealed thus,Like tombs. Nor until now could I admitThat all I cared for was the pleasure and painI tasted in the stony square sunlit,Or the dark cloisters, or shade of airy plane,While music blazed and children, line after line,Marched past, hiding the "SEVENTEEN THIRTY- NINE."
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