He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, Accepted so - I dwelt - upon his breast - It was a boundless place to me And silenced, as the awful Sea Puts minor streams to rest.
And now, I'm different from before, As if I breathed superior air - Or brushed a Royal Gown - My feet, too, that had wandered so - My Gypsy face - transfigured now - To tenderer Renown -
Into this Port, if I might come, Rebecca, to Jerusalem, Would not so ravished turn - Nor Persian, baffled at her shrine Lift such a Crucifixal sign To her imperial Sun.
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