[BNP/E3, 79¹ – 1]

Woman.

Ere Youth, in dreams I nothing had of thee[1]

A girl in bloom with mien not of child,

Warm and {…} and unwild

In lust {…}

But when youth and revelation came to me.

And written then I knew and {…} and the[2] mild

Courage inflexible of purity.

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Thou cam’st to me like rays of moon

Through forest leaves, of mote pure no less

When we far-distant from the lazy noon.

Pass into nothingness and senselessness

Heeding the glimmer of the silver shoon,

Of the queen of the fancy

Of the Fairy queen, fancy like a caress (bliss)[3]

[1^v]

March 1906.

Alexander Search.

Alexander Search.

[1] in dreams I nothing had of thee ^{/I had this dream of thee\}

[2] the ^{/the deep,\}

[3] fancy like a caress (bliss) ^{/gone like a kiss\}