“I had a thought for no one's but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;”

St. 5 <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/ <br class="br">Context: I had a thought for no one's but your ears:<br>That you were beautiful, and that I strove<br>To love you in the old high way of love;<br>That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown<br>As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.

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