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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 56
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Surely some angle shed
Flowers for the maiden head,
Ephemeral flowers !
I yearn, not comforted.
My heart has vainly bled
Through age-long hours.
To thee my spirit turns ;
My bright soul aches and burns,
As a dry valley yearns
For spring and showers.
Splendid, remote, a fane
Alone and unprofane,
I know thy breast.
These bitter tears of pain
Flood me, and fall again
Not into rest.
Me, whose sole purpose is
To gain one gainless kiss,
And make a bird’s my bliss,
Shrined in that nest.
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