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I have remembered beauty in the night, Against black silences I waked to seeA shower of sunlight over And green Ravello dreaming on her height; I have remembered music in the dark,

When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I have looked Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise,

One by one, like leaves from a tree All my faiths have forsaken me; But the stars above my head Burn in white and delicate red, And beneath my feet the earth Brings the sturdy grass to birth. I who was content to be But a…

Bring me the roses white and red, And take the laurel leaves away; Yea, wreathe the roses round my That wearies 'neath the crown of bay."We searched the wintry forests thro'And found no roses anywhere—But we have brought a little

My soul lives in my body's house, And you have both the house and her —But sometimes she is less your own Than a wild, gay adventurer; A restless and an eager wraith, How can I tell what she will do —Oh,

It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold,

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

When I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough;