Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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AVOWAL
As two men smoking, though one be a youth,And one so great he meets him as a peer
Or cannot meet at all, speak open truth,
—The God with me vouchsafing to make cheer:
“Eros, and now in disillusion, now
That thou hast purged me of thy thick blindfold,
Damon is false and Glaphyrus!...Avow,
Are not these creatures, I have doted on,
Thine idols, and eternal sweet to thee?
Dead loves I speak of, loves long dead and gone.”...
A noble silence settled on our glee;
And the sweet mouth grew jocund as he took
The cup to pledge, and all his glorious pinions shook.
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