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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 43
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THE SECOND DAY
“ Keep you in the rear of your affection
Out of the shot and danger of desire.”
Hamlet.
I was so hopeless that I turned away
And gave my love to foul oblivion,
Shuttered my bosom’s window from the sun,
Kindled a corpse-light and proclaimed “ The day ! ”;
Lurked in Aeaean fens to elude the ray
Whose beauty might disturb me : I did shun
The onyx eyes that saw me not as one
Possible even for a moment’s play.
Thus I was tangled in some house of hell,
Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust,
Hoping to build some fort impregnable
Against my love : instead the deep disgust
Of my own beasthood crushed it into dust,
And left my manhood twisted in her spell.
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