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Adam's Curse

We sat grown quiet at the name of love;
We saw the last embers of daylight die,
And in the trembling blue-green of the sky
A moon, worn as if it had been a shell
Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell
About the stars and broke in days and years.

I had a thought for no one's but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.

Willam Butler Yeats

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Are you waxing uncharacteristically verbose?

Ahh...but I see that this is from Yeats.  Excellent choice however.  I myself am never loathe to quote someone when they say what I want to say better than I can say it myself.

As ye were.

 

Eric

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Just be thankful, Eric

it's not Emerson who is not blessed with Steve's spot-on breviloquence.

Great poem.