Beauty is naught to me.
(Chiarascuro: Rose)
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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
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The poets and the prophecies are ours:
and these are with us as we turn, in turn,
the leaves of love that fill the Book of Change.
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The scene was pain, and nothing but pain.
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I see a shadow of secret crimes.
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And you, who smile about you at this room,
Is it foretold
That you must step from tumult into gloom,
Forget me, love another?
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