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I think I see you when you wake,
And rub your eyes for me, and shake
My gold, in rising, from your hair,
A Danaë for a moment there.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet, keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.

To Eve's womb, from our sweet to-morrow,
God shall greatly multiply sorrow.

If the light is
It is because God said 'Let there be light.'

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