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I never found them, ever again—all so quickly lost …

the poetic eyes, the pallid

face. … in the gloaming of the street. …

I’ve not found them since—things I came to have completely by chance,

things that I let go so easily;

and afterwards, in anguish, wanted back.

The poetic eyes, the pale face,

those lips, I haven’t found them since.

[1909; 1917]