<p><SPAN name="THE_POET" id="THE_POET"></SPAN>THE POET</p>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He made him a love o' dreams—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">He raised for his heart's delight—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">(As the heart of June a crescent moon)</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">A frail, fair spirit of light.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He gave her the gift of joy—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The gift of the dancing feet—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He made her a thing of very Spring—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Virginal—wild and sweet.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But when he would draw her near</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To his eager heart's content,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As a sunbeam slips from the finger-tips</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">She slipped from his hold and went.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Virginal—wild—and sweet—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">So she eludes him still—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The love that he made of dawn and shade</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of dominant want and will.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For ever the dream of man</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Is more than the dreamer is;</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Though he form it whole of his inmost soul,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Yet never 'tis wholly his.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Only is given to him</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The right to follow and yearn</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The loveliness he may not possess,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The vision that may not turn.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Never to hold or to bind—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Only to know how fleet</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The dream that is and yet is not his,—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Virginal—wild—and sweet.</span><br/>
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