Of dreary night the hour. I watch contoured
two dreary shadows: there, behind a curtain white,
the lamp is burning, in a field of light,
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Perhaps they whisper, but perhaps they shout,
perhaps they scream; - none shall hear the other,
two shadows of the night, through so much light…
They will not hear each other, nor will they reach,
alone each for the other in weariness and thirst,
they - the shadow of a man and a shadow of a woman!
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Perhaps they whisper, but perhaps they shout, perhaps they scream; - none shall hear the other, two shadows of the night, through so much light… They will not hear each other, nor will they reach, alone each for the other in weariness and thirst, they - the shadow of a man and a shadow of a woman! Excellent...