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The sounds of mid night trickle into the roar	A
Of morning over the water growing blue	B
At ten o'clock the August sunbeams pour	A
A blinding flood on Michigan Avenue	B
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But yet the half drawn shades of bottle green	C
Leave the recesses of the room	D
With misty auras drawn around their gloom	D
Where things lie undistinguished scarcely seen	C
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You standing between the window and the bed	E
Are edged with rainbow colors And I lie	F
Drowsy with quizzical half open eye	F
Musing upon the contour of your head	E
Watching you comb your hair	G
Clothed in a corset waist and skirt of silk	H
Tied with white braid above your slender hips	I
Which reaches to your knees and makes your bare	G
And delicate legs by contrast white as milk	H
And as you toss your head to comb its tresses	J
They flash upon me like long strips of sand	K
Between a moonlit sea pale as your hand	K
And a red sun that on a high dune stresses	L
Its sanguine heat	M
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And then at times your lips	I
Protruding half unconscious half in scorn	N
Engage my eyes while looking through the morn	N
At the clear oval of your brow brought full	O
Over the sovereign largeness of your eyes	P
Or at your breasts that shake not as you pull	O
The comb through stubborn tangles only rise	P
Scarcely perceptible with breath or signs	Q
Firm unmaternal like a young Bacchante's	Q
Or at your nose profoundly dipped like Dante's	Q
Over your chin that softly melts away	R
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Now you seem fully under my heart's sway	R
I have slipped through the magic of your mesh	S
Freed once again and strengthened by your flesh	S
You seem a weak thing for a strong man's play	R
Yet I know now that we shall scarce have parted	T
When I shall think of you half heavy hearted	T
I know our partings You will faintly smile	U
And look at me with eyes that have no guile	U
Or have too much and pass into the sphere	V
Where you keep independent life meanwhile	U
How do you live without me is the fear	V
You do not lean upon me ask my love or wonder	W
Of other loves I may have hidden under	W
These casual renewals of our love	X
And if I loved you I should lie in flame	Y
Ari go about re murmuring your name	Y
And these are things a man should be above	X
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And as I lie here on the imminent brink	Z
Of soul's surrender into your soul's power	W
And in the white light of the morning hour	W
I see what life would be if we should link	Z
Our lives together in a marriage pact	A2
For we would walk along a boundless tract	A2
Of perfect hell but your disloyalty	B2
Would be of spirit for I have not won	C2
Mastered and bound your spirit unto me	B2
And if you had a lover in the way	R
I have you it would not by half betray	R
My love as does your vague and chainless thought	D2
Which wanders soars or vanishes returns	Q
Changes astonishes or chills or burns	Q
Is unresisting plastic freely wrought	D2
Under my hands yet to no unison	C2
Of my life and of yours Upon this brink	Z
I watch you now and think	Z
Of all that has been preached or sung or spoken	C2
Of woman's tragedy in woman's fall	E2
And all the pictures of a woman broken	C2
By man's superior strength	F2
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And there you stand	K
Your heart and life as firmly in command	K
Of your resolve as mine is knowing all	E2
Of man the master and his power to harm	G2
His rulership of spheres material	H2
Bread customs rules of fair repute	I2
What are they all against your slender arm	G2
Which long since plucked the fruit	I2
Of good and evil and of life at last	J2
And now of Life For dancing you have cast	J2
Veil after veil of ideals or pretense	Q
With which men clothe the being feminine	C2
To satisfy their lordship or their sense	Q
Of ownership and hide the things of sin	K2
You have thrown them aside veil after veil	L2
And there you stand unarmored weirdly frail	L2
Yet strong as nature making comical	H2
The poems and the tales of woman's fall	E2
You nod your head you smile I feel the air	G
Made by the closing door I lie and stare	G
At the closed door One two your tuft d steps	Q
Die on the velvet of the outer hall	E2
You have escaped And I would not pursue	Q
Though we are but caged creatures I and you	Q
A male and female tiger in a zoo	Q
For I shall wait you Life himself will track	M2
Your wanderings and bring you back	M2
And shut you up again with me and cage	N2
Our love and hatred and our silent rage	N2

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