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Show THE LIVING 'I J I By Randolph Hartley. ' Painted masques and perfumes, If) Laces, lingerie; H Bodies Wherein blood is wine, M Smiles and (mockery; X Sin and gorgeous sinners, Lips with passion rife; I Women, drink and dinners 9 Some men call it Life. J Toll and want and sorrow, . Children gaunt and sad; Evil-smelling tenement, Wife gone to the bad; , Dawn to dusk the workday, 11 Dusk to dawn the strife; M Squalid, filthy, brutal years Some men call it Life. jjl Books and vague conjectures, m, Drea'ms that flame and die; n Cloistered hours of wonderment If As to what and why; i Introspection's cancer I Baffling surgeon's knife M Moping, groping, thinking, blinking Some men call it Life. i Smart Sot. 1 |
