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FROM HOUSE TO HOME.
Safe in his excavated gallery
The burrowing mole groped on from year to year
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me
His prickly back for fear.
The burrowing mole groped on from year to year
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me
His prickly back for fear.
Ofttimes one like an angel walked with me,
With spirit-discerning eyes like flames of fire,
But deep as the unfathomed endless sea
Fulfilling my desire:
With spirit-discerning eyes like flames of fire,
But deep as the unfathomed endless sea
Fulfilling my desire:
And sometimes like a snowdrift he was fair,
And sometimes like a sunset glorious red,
And sometimes he had wings to scale the air
With aureole round his head.
And sometimes like a sunset glorious red,
And sometimes he had wings to scale the air
With aureole round his head.
We sang our songs together by the way,
Calls and recalls and echoes of delight;
So communed we together all the day,
And so in dreams by night.
Calls and recalls and echoes of delight;
So communed we together all the day,
And so in dreams by night.
I have no words to tell what way we walked,
What unforgotten path now closed and sealed:
I have no words to tell all things we talked,
All things that he revealed:
What unforgotten path now closed and sealed:
I have no words to tell all things we talked,
All things that he revealed:
This only can I tell: that hour by hour
I waxed more feastful, lifted up and glad
I felt no thorn-prick when I plucked a flower,
Felt not my friend was sad.
I waxed more feastful, lifted up and glad
I felt no thorn-prick when I plucked a flower,
Felt not my friend was sad.
