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Here life pays peace and ecstasy for tithe:
The dissonant trumpets of the world are mute
And God is but an old man with a scythe
And love the faltering fancy of a flute.
To lie with kissing lashes and confuse
The silver olives and the gol [...]
Only asters gone to seed, Goldenrod and fennel-weed Make her meager diadem, Brede her snowy cuffs and hem. Stitch the blossoms gone to feather On her breast where frost's the weather; Here a sprig and there a spray— Loveliness has gone its way. The [...]
Not to be naming you in all my prayers
Has made me prayerless, pagan, atheist;
Not to be knowing I am of your cares
Has loosed a ghost with eyes of amethyst
Into the regal day. The only thread,
Now broke, that bounden me to life was you,
So [...]
Beloved and alien, gaze with me on the sea:
It kneels before the moon whose crimson blade
Rests on its million shoulders. But for me
The image of that lunar accolade
Is not the one your eyes bring in to you—
It varies by the flinching of a [...]
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