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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 91
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
Within thy secret grove
Naked and armless, save
For this seraphic glaive.
How then ? What other price
May serve thy sacrifice ?
Ah ! by the evil glint
Of sun, portends an hint.
Shall I the childless king,
Chaste in thy praise, resign
That which was never mine,
The power of — spring ?
Ay ! by the fierce glad gleam
On thy dark lips, I see
Thy sober ecstasy
To watch the soft bright stream
Bubble and curl, like passion-flowers alight
On the seductive malachite,
To take with greedy joy
This — toy.
The jewels all-precious of a man
Waste death before thee — Pan !
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