Before Knowledge
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Before Knowledge Lyrics
When I walked roseless tracks and wide,
Ere dawned your date for meeting me,
O why did you not cry Halloo
Across the stretch between, and say:
"We move, while years as yet divide,
On closing lines which—though it be
You know me not nor I know you -
Will intersect and join some day!"
Then well I had borne
Each scraping thorn;
But the winters froze,
And grew no rose;
No bridge bestrode
The gap at all;
No shape you showed,
And I heard no call!
Ere dawned your date for meeting me,
O why did you not cry Halloo
Across the stretch between, and say:
"We move, while years as yet divide,
On closing lines which—though it be
You know me not nor I know you -
Will intersect and join some day!"
Then well I had borne
Each scraping thorn;
But the winters froze,
And grew no rose;
No bridge bestrode
The gap at all;
No shape you showed,
And I heard no call!
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- 9.The Rival
- 11.She, I, And They
- 12.Joys Of Memory
- 13.To The Moon
- 16.Quid Hic Agis?
- 18.Timing Her
- 19.Before Knowledge
- 20.The Blinded Bird
- 22.The Faded Face
- 23.The Riddle
- 24.The Duel
- 29.The Change
- 35.The Pedigree
- 37.Where They Lived
- 38.The Occultation
- 42.The Wound
- 46.A Kiss
- 47.The Announcement
- 48.The Oxen
- 49.The Tresses
- 50.The Photograph
- 51.On A Heath
- 52.An Anniversary
- 54.The Pink Frock
- 55.Transformations
- 56.In Her Precincts
- 57.The Last Signal
- 59.Great Things
- 60.The Chimes
- 63.Conjecture
- 64.The Blow
- 70.The Musical Box
- 72.Royal Sponsors
- 73.Old Furniture
- 77.The Interloper
- 79.The Sunshade
- 80.The Ageing House
- 83.The Ballet
- 87.The Dolls
- 88.Molly Gone
- 90.Looking Across
- 92.The Glimpse
- 97.Her Love-Birds
- 98.Paying Calls
- 101.Everything Comes
- 102.The Man With A Past
- 105.Jubilate
- 109.The Robin
- 111.The Nettles
- 112.In A Waiting-Room
- 113.The Clock-Winder
- 114.Old Excursions
- 115.The Masked Face
- 118.The Enemy’s Portrait
- 119.Imaginings
- 120.On The Doorstep
- 121.Signs And Tokens
- 122.Paths Of Former Time
- 124.At The Piano
- 128.An Upbraiding
- 132.The Man Who Forgot
- 136.His Country
- 143.“Often When Warring”
- 144.Then And Now
- 148.“I Met A Man”
- 151.Afterwards
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