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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 58
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More cruel than art thou
The calm and chaste of brow,
If thou dost this,
Forget the feeble vow
Ill sworn : all laws allow
Pity, that is
Kin unto love, and mild.
List to the sad and wild
Crying of the lonely child
Who asks a kiss.
One kiss, like snow, to slip,
Cool fragrance from thy lip
To melt on mine ;
One kiss, a white-sail ship
To laugh and leap and dip
Her brows divine ;
One kiss, a starbeam faint
With love of a sweet saint,
Stolen like a sacrament
In the night’s shrine !
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