Versos English Edward Dowden Ii

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Was I not right to bring you here? We might have seen slip the hours within Till God’s new day in the East were clear, And His silence abashed the dancers’ din, Then each have gone away, the pain And longing greatened, not satisfied, By a hand’s slight touch or a glance’s gain,-- And now we are standing side by side!