Her Initials

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Upon a poet’s page I wrote
 Of old two letters of her name;  
Part seemed she of the effulgent thought  
 Whence that high singer’s rapture came.  
—When now I turn the leaf the same
 Immortal light illumes the lay  
But from the letters of her name  
 The radiance has died away.

© Thomas Hardy