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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 60
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I would not kiss thee, I !
Lest my lip’s charactery
Ruin thy flower.
Curve thou one maidenly
Kiss, stooping from thy sky
Of peace and power !
Thine only be the embrace !—
I move not from my place,
Feel the exultant face
Mine for an hour !
Mine, and for ever mine ;
Dim glory in the shrine
Of Artemis
Endymion-lured to wine,
And dove-looks Erycine,
Flower-scented bliss !
O sweet ! O saint ! I swoon
Beneath the guiding moon ;
In thine embrace, the tune
Of that one kiss.
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