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It was evening as I wandered,

By a lake two lovers leaned, smiling to see their faces in the water,

For they had found within each other's souls

An argent flattering mirror wherein to gaze and see their faces change with all the moods and shadows of the day....

Not here should I discover the answer to bring light into my darkness,

Into the dim psychic crystals of my soul opalled with the changing colours of unrest—

So I went away into the loneliness, asking the forests and the mountains and the sea

The knowledge of life's baffling mysteries.

But they were roaring in a wind of memories,