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Show FOR A PLAY By Edgar Lee Masters. Love began with both or them so gently Meeting, neither thought nor looked intently. Afterwards her breath invoked the fire Breath to breath set burning their desire. Is there aught. in flesh or is it spirit Conscious of its kindred soul when near it? Woe to flesh or soul that's wholly wakened While the other's soul depths lie unshakened. How could she give him all sacred blisseB? Long embraces, in the darkness kisses? If she was not his all else forgetting Lovers gone and other loves' regretting? That was just the place her gold was leadened Flesh there too alive, co him all deadened. She could harp not to his playing wholly. 2iy Yet his heart strings trembled for her solely. So this love play hastened to the curtain . Each one spoke his lines in accents certain. I While at times behind the wings her glancetj I Warmed the prompter's treasonous advances. I Is there greater martydom than this is? You have staked your soul where the abyss is. You have given all oh sorry barter You have lit the fire for you the martyr. You will still love on, or turn to hating, Days depart, your heart stays in its waiting, Where's the blame? She gave her heart's half measure, All she had for all your soul's full treasure. What's the half to keep could you achieve it? What your treasure if you could retrieve it? Never more shall you again beBtow it, Now you have a song if you're a poet. Now you're ever dumb if song's denied you, You shall be more dumb than all beside you, While your soul is shaken by its torrents Dante songless in a Dante Florence. Age shall not make strong, nor deeper learning. Grief grows clearer with your eye's discerning. Pass the years, but oh the soil grows faster Richer for the roots of your disaster. EnuS the play for what is life but dying? What is love but fire forever crying? What your soul but love's pure carbon fuel? Love and life make ashes of the jewel! Reedy's Mirror. |