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THE MASKER by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG

Poet Analysis

First Line: I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU
Last Line: WITHIN YOUR EYES.

I fell in love with you
(Guessing that you were truth),
For you were masked and strange,
And you were Youth.

And then when I was sure
That love and youth were true,
I took the mask away
And you were You.

But gazing on you still
As hungry lovers do,
I saw that you were more
Than Youth, or You;

You had a third Shape, too,
Hidden for my suprise -
I looked, and saw it masked
Within your eyes.



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