“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;”

—  W.B. Yeats

St. 5
In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/
Context: 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;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.

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