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New Poems (Yeats)/The Chambermaid's First Song

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579455New Poems — The Chambermaid's First SongWilliam Butler Yeats

HOW came this ranger
Now sunk in rest,
Stranger with stranger,
On my cold breast?

What's left to sigh for?
Strange night has come;
God's love has hidden him
Out of all harm,
Pleasure has made him
Weak as a worm.