But we who remain shall grow oldie shall know the cold Of cheerless Winter and the rain of Autumn and the sting Of poverty, of love despised and of disgraces, And mirrors showing stained and aging faces, And the long ranges of comfortless years And the long gamut of human fears... But, for you, it shall forever be spring, And only you shall be forever fearless, And only you have white, straight, tireless limbs, And only you, where the water-lily swims Shall walk along the pathways tho' the willows Of your west. You who went West, and only you on silvery twilight pillows Shall take your resting the soft sweet glooms Of twilight rooms...

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