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We stood among the boats and nets	A
We marked the risen moon	B
Walk swaying o'er the trembling seas	C
As one sways in a swoon	B
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The little stars the lonely stars	D
Stole through the hollow sky	E
And every sucking eddy where	F
The waves lapped wharf or rotten stair	F
Moaned like some stricken thing hid there	F
And strangled with its own despair	F
As the shuddering tide crept by	E
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I loved her and I hated her	G
Or did I hate myself because	H
Bound by obscure strong silken laws	H
I felt myself the worshiper	G
Of beauty never wholly mine	I
With lures most apt to snare entwine	I
With bonds too subtle to define	I
Her lighter nature mastered mine	I
Herself half given half withheld	J
Her lesser spirit still compelled	J
Its tribute from my franker soul	K
So rebel slave and worshiper	G
I loved her and I hated her	G
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I gazed upon her I her thrall	L
And musing murmured What if death	M
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Were just the answer to it all	L
Suppose some dainty dagger quaffed	J
Her life in one deep eager draught	J
Suppose some amorous knife caressed	J
The lovely hollow of her breast	J
She turned a mocking look to mine	I
She read the thought within my eyne	I
She held me with her look and laughed	J
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Now who may tell what stirs controls	N
And shapes mad fancies into facts	O
What trivial things may quicken souls	N
To irrevocable swift acts	O
Now who has known who understood	J
Wherefore some idle thing	P
May stab with deadlier sting	P
Than well considered insult could	J
May spur the languor of a mood	J
And rouse a tiger in the blood	J
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Ah Christ had she not laughed just when	I
That fancy came for then and then	I
A sudden mist dropped from the sky	E
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A mist swept in across the sea	Q
A mist that hid her face from me	Q
A weeping mist all tinged with red	J
A dripping mist that smelt like blood	J
It choked my throat it burnt my brain	I
And through it peered one sallow star	R
And through it rang one shriek of pain	I
And when it passed my hands were red	J
My soul was dabbled with her blood	J
And when it passed my love was dead	J
And tossed upon the troubled flood	J

Don Marquis

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