Another year ended
Over and done,
What have we left of it
Now that it’s gone
...
‘How much we change...
I well remember when, ’
She said -
But that was years before
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What would you with me
Catherine Gables,
Turn my face
From my winter stables,
...
From a blue cloud at the two o’clock
And out of the rain,
With a long step and a swift nod
The master came.
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There was a bright-eyed boy
That no-one knows,
Who stowed away in steerage once,
I hid him in my clothes,
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Why don’t you visit me,
Why be so sad,
Twilight is wizardry
Now that I’m mad;
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There once was time to sit and spin
The dream without, the light within
When young ideals like creed and rote
Would wreathe their blue tobacco smoke.
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Some ride high pacers
Then buckle, then groom,
I toil the mornings
And weary by noon,
...
What miner’s art
Did meld and make,
Did stone on stone
Fling you on high,
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You are God’s best-kept secret, Li Shaojun,
Your smile lights up the dimmest, darkest day,
And in your eyes, there shines a love so strong
That men are shamed, and look the other way.
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