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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 26
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Unto the floral face,
Carven in ancient grace
Of Gods or Greeks,
The whole sky’s way gives place :
Open the walls of space,
And silence speaks.
See ! I am floating far
Beyond space and sun and star,
As drifts a nenuphar
Down lilied creeks.
Beyond the heavens I see
The pale embroidery
Of some wan child
Waster by earth and sea,
Whose kisses were too free,
Too swift and wild ;
A Maenad’s floating tress
Lost in the wilderness
Of death’s or my caress,
Discrowned, defiled.
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