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From: "Jean Rice" <>
Subject: [IGW] W. B. YEATS -- "The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love"
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:23:05 -0700

THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.

-- William Butler Yeats, born Dublin 1865

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