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I	A
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THERE was an instant when he might have said	B
He could not see the lady but instead	B
He nodded with a blank impassive face	C
And waited never moving from his place	C
Beside the window till a moment more	D
And she was there leaning against the door	D
Which she had closed She stood there silent staring	E
Trembling with fear at her own act of daring	E
But not with fear of him Erect and slim	F
White as the daytime moon she spoke to him	F
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'I know ' she said 'that it was not your plan	G
That we should ever meet I know a man	G
Assumes despotic power assumes his voice	H
In cases such as ours shall have the choice	H
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'But is that just I ask is that fair play	I
That you should have the right to throw away	I
Crush and destroy and utterly deny	A
Our joint possession or rather mine for I	A
Value our friendship so much more than you	J
Appear to ' 'No ' he said 'That is not true '	-
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She shook her head 'Ah if you thought it rare	K
Precious and wonderful you would not dare	K
Destroy it by yourself not even you '	-
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He answered 'I not only would I do	J
You speak of friendship What a silly word	L
And as dishonest as I ever heard	L
Let us at least be candid for God's sake	M
And speak the truth what difference does it make	M
It is not friendship we are speaking of	N
But the first moments of a passionate love '	-
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'You're wrong ' she cried 'you're absolutely wrong	O
Not everything emotional and strong	O
Between a man and woman needs must be	P
Physical love People like you and me	P
Are wise enough and old enough to take	M
This fiery elemental thing and make	M
Something for every day serene and cool	Q
I am not of the all or nothing school '	-
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He smiled 'We light hell fires and you engage	R
They'll warm our palsied hands in our old age '	-
At this she paused and then she said 'Your tone	S
Wounds me I live so terribly alone	S
I am perhaps too eager for a friend	T
But not a lover Oh please comprehend	T
I want no lovers Think me vain or not	U
But I assure you I might have a lot	U
Of them But friendship such as you could give	V
Wisdom and strength and knowledge how to live	W
In this harsh world in which I draw my breath	X
With so much pain it seems a sort of death	X
To yield so rich a promise to forego	Y
Such happiness ' She heard him laugh 'You know	Y
All that is nonsense ' 'Nonsense ' 'All but this '	-
And on her willing lips she felt his kiss	Z
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II	A
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'I HAVE a new friend ' thought Lee 'I have a lover	A2
Made of steel and fire as a lover ought to be	P
And I do not much care if all the world discover	A2
That I adore him madly and that he loves me	P
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'Everything I do nowadays is pleasant	B2
Talking walking brushing out my hair	K
Oh isn't it fine a friend not being even present	B2
Can give the world a meaning and common things an air '	-
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III	A
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O AGONY infernal	C2
That lovers undergo	Y
O secret trysts diurnal	C2
That nobody must know	Y
O vigilance eternal	C2
The whole world for a foe	Y
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But Lee and Wayne were clever	A2
And all that springtime through	J
They met and met and never	A2
Were noticed so to do	J
And no one whatsoever	A2
Suspected them or knew	J
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IV	Y
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LOVE in a city in spring	E
Not so divine a thing	E
As love the poet dreams	D2
Meadows and brimming streams	D2
Yet there is much to say	I
For love in New York in May	I
Parks set in tulip beds	E2
Yellows and whites and reds	E2
Japanese plums in flower	A2
And that wisteria bower	A2
Dripping its blossoms sweet	F2
Over a rustic seat	F2
Where tramps and nursemaids meet	F2
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New York in early May	I
Breaks out in awnings gay	I
Daisies and ivy trailing	E
From every window railing	E
And at this time of year	G2
Strange open hacks appear	G2
Shabby and old and low	Y
Wherein strange couples go	Y
Generally after dark	H2
Clop clopping round the park	H2
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And with it all the loud	I2
Noisy indifferent crowd	I2
Offers to lovers shrewd	J2
Infinite solitude	J2
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V	Y
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FOUR thousand years ago a great king died	K2
And there were rites and hymns and long processions	L2
And he was buried in his pomp and pride	K2
With all his vast possessions	L2
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Gold beds with lapis lazuli inlay	I
And chairs and perfume jars of alabaster	A2
And many slaves were slain lest they betray	I
The tomb that held their master	A2
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Lee leant her hand upon his mummy case	C
Opened to show the gold and silver plating	E
And as Wayne came her look was an embrace	C
'Darling I don't mind waiting	E
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'I like ' she said 'to settle in my seat	F2
A moment ere the rising of the curtain	M2
Waiting for something certain can be sweet	F2
For something almost certain '	-
	-
VI	Y
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THEY would meet for luncheon every day	I
At a small unknown French cafe	I
Half way up town and half way down	N2
With a chef deserving great renown	N2
And Pierre the waiter would smile and say	I
'Bonjour Monsieur dame ' and they	I
Would see by his smile discreet and sly	Y
That he knew exactly the reason why	Y
A couple so proud and rich should come	O2
To eat each day in a squalid slum	O2
And nothing delighted his Gallic heart	P2
More than to find he could play a part	P2
And protect 'ces amoureux foux d' amour'	A2
And guide their choice through the carte du jour	A2
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VII	I
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BUT most of all Lee loved the hours	Q2
When streets filled full of violet mists	R2
And after glows on taller towers	Q2
Prove that the sunset still exists	R2
And in Wayne's long dark car reclining	E
They'd cross a bridge and bye and bye	Y
Turn back to see the city shining	E
Against a pale blue star sewn sky	Y
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VIII	I
	-
'I KNOW ' she said 'I am a fool to weep	S2
I know the time will pass however black	T2
Oh Jim if I could take a drug and sleep	S2
And sleep till you come back	T2
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'Do you remember how poor Juliet said	B
'Think you that we shall ever meet again '	-
And what was poor weak Romeo instead	B
Of you a king of men	U2
	-
'Don't be surprised to find me at the train	V2
With pipes and garlands and a choric dance	W2
Telling the porters 'That is J H Wayne	V2
My one supreme romance ' '	-
	-
So it seemed natural to Lee to speak	X2
If Wayne were going away for a week	X2
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IX	W2
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HE had been gone three days when wearily strolling about	Y2
She stopped and sent him a wire writing it out	Y2
With a pencil chained to a desk 'This is to say	W2
There are over eighty thousand seconds a day	W2
Each one of them longer than seconds ought to be	Y
And a personal foe of yours devotedly Lee '	-
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X	W2
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A letter from Ruth a letter from Lee	Y
Wayne took them both with his bedroom key	Y
Every day since he went away	W2
Lee had written him every day	W2
How kind how tender And yet his wife	I
Had always written him all his life	I
Since that first Fall day since that first fond year	A2
When to part was really 'un peu mourir '	-
Ruth's letters had come in her small black writing	E
So faithful and now so unexciting	E
A long unbreakable chain whose fetters	W2
Were formed of those little daily letters	W2
Leading him back to his alien youth	Z2
And his love his first deep love of Ruth	Z2
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Once he had waited young and lonely	Y
For those daily letters to come the only	Y
Solace in absence terror smitten	M2
Thinking Dear God if she hasn't written	M2
When did they change what day what hour	A2
Did her letters lose their magical power	A2
He was the same man and she the same	A3
Woman and still her letters came	A3
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A letter from Ruth a letter from Lee	Y
Wayne took them both with his bedroom key	Y
Was it a habit a memory	Y
Of that deep old love that his heart once nursed	B3
Who knows	W2
He opened Ruth's letter first	B3
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XI	Y
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THE day that Wayne was coming home	C3
Lee flitted fleet footed among the throng	O
Of suburbanites shuffling their feet along	O
Under the turquoise dome	C3
With the signs of the zodiac all turned wrong	O
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A blue capped official proud and remote	D3
Was writing unmoved as the crowd increased	E3
Messages brief as those fingers wrote	D3
On the wall at Belshazzar's dreadful feast	E3
'Train Fifty One is on time Train Eleven	M2
On time Train Nineteen an hour late '	-
And then the announcement big with fate	F3
'Train Fifteen on Track Forty Seven '	-
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And Lee's heart beat with a wild elation	M2
And she ran like a child in a childish game	A3
Pushed without pity or grace or shame	A3
Past women and children to take her station	M2
Where she could perfectly see	Y
Down the dark hole where the train	V2