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1 By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: 2 That, at his hand's light quiver by her head, 3 The strange low sobs that shook their common bed 4 Were called into her with a sharp surprise, 5 And strangled mute, like little gaping snakes, 6 Dreadfully venomous to him. She lay 7 Stone-still, and the long darkness flowed away 8 With muffled pulses. Then, as midnight makes 9 Her giant heart of Memory and Tears 10 Drink the pale drug of silence, and so beat 11 Sleep's heavy measure, they from head to feet 12 Were moveless, looking through their dead black years, 13 By vain regret scrawled over the blank wall. 14 Like sculptured effigies they might be seen 15 Upon their marriage-tomb, the sword between; 16 Each wishing for the sword that severs all.
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