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What are the mortal facts	A
With which we deal The man is thirty years	B
Most vital in a richness physical	C
Of musical heart and feeling and the woman	D
Is twenty eight a cradle warm and rich	E
For life to grow in	F
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And the time is this	G
This Henry Murray has a mood of peace	H
A splendor as of June has for the time	I
Quelled anarchy within him come to law	J
Sees life a thing of beauty happiness	K
And fortune glow before him And the mother	L
Sunning her feathers in his genial light	M
Takes longing and has hope For body's season	D
The blood of youth leaps in them like a fountain	D
And splashes musically in the crystal pool	N
Of quiet days and hours They rise refreshed	O
Feel all the sun's strength flow through muscles nerves	P
Extract from food no poison only health	Q
Are sensitive to simple things the turn	R
Of leaves on trees flowers springing robins' songs	S
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Now such a time must prosper love's desire	L
Fed gently tended wisely left to mount	T
In flame and light A prospering fate occurs	U
To send this Henry Murray from his wife	V
And keep him absent for a month inspire	W
A daily letter written of the joys	X
And hopes they have together and omit	Y
Forgotten for the time old aches despairs	Z
Forebodings for the future	L
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What results	A2
For thirty days her youth and youthful blood	B2
Under the stimulus of absence letters	U
And growing longing laves and soothes and feeds	C2
Like streams that nourish fields her body's being	D2
Enriches cells to plumpness dim asleep	E2
Which stretch expand and turn the prototype	F2
Of a baby newly born which after the cry	G2
At midnight taking breath an hour before	H2
That cry which is of things most tragical	N
The tragedy most poignant sleeps and rests	I2
And flicks its little fingers with closed eyes	J2
Senses with visions of unopened leaves	K2
This monstrous and external sphere the world	L2
And what moves in it	Y
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So she thinks of him	M2
And longs for his return and as she longs	S
The rivers of her body run and ripple	N
Refresh and quicken her The morning's light	M
Flutters upon the ceiling and she lies	J2
And stretches drowsily in the breaking slumber	L
Of fluctuant emotion calls to him	M2
With spirit and flesh until his very name	N2
Seems like to form in sound while lips are closed	O2
And tongue is motionless beyond herself	P2
And in the middle spaces of the room	Q2
Calls back to her	L
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And Henry Murray caught	R2
In letters which she sent him all she felt	S2
Re kindled it and sped it back to her	L
Then came a lover's fancy in his brain	T2
He would return unlooked for who the god	U2
Inspired the fancy find her in what mood	V2
She might be in his absence where no blur	L
Of expectation of his coming changed	W2
Her color flame of spirit And he bought	R2
Some chablis and a cake slipped noiselessly	N
Into the chamber where she lay asleep	E2
And had a light upon her face before	H2
She woke and saw him	M2
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How she cried her joy	X2
And put her arms around him burned away	Y2
In one great moment from a goblet of fire	L
Which over flowed whatever she had felt	S2
Of shrinking or distaste or loveless hands	Z2
At any time before and burned it there	A3
Till even the ashes sparkled blew away	Y2
In incense and in light	M
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She rose and slipped	B3
A robe on and her slippers drew a stand	C3
Between them for the chablis and the cake	D3
And drank and ate with him and showed her teeth	E3
While laughing shaking curls and flinging back	F3
Her head for rapture and in little crows	G3
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And thus the wine caught up the resting cells	H3
And flung them in the current and their blood	B2
Flows silently and swiftly running deep	E2
And their two hearts beat like the rhythmic chimes	I3
Of little bells of steel made blue by flame	N2
Because their lives are ready now and life	V
Cries out to life for life to be The fire	L
Lit in the altar of their eyes is blind	J3
For mysteries that urge the blood of them	K3
In separate streams would mingle hurried on	L3
By energy from the heights of ancient mountains	M3
The God himself and Life the Gift of God	U2
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And as result the hurrying microcosms	M3
Out of their beings sweep seek out embrace	M3
Dance for the rapture of freedom being loosed	N3
Unite achieve their destiny find the cradle	N
Of sleep and growth take up the cryptic task	O3
Of maturation and of fashioning	D2
Where no light is except the light of God	U2
To light the human spirit which emerges	M3
From nothing that man knows and where a face	M3
To be a woman's or a man's takes form	P3
Hands that shall gladden lips that shall enthrall	N
With songs or kisses hands and lips perhaps	M3
To hurt and poison All is with the fates	M3
And all beyond us	M3
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Now the seed is sown	Q3
The flower must grow and blossom Something comes	M3
Perhaps to whisper something in the ear	R3
That will exert itself against the mass	M3
That grows proliferates but for the rest	S3
The task is done One thing remains alone	Q3
It is a daughter woman that you bear	A3
A whisper says to her It is her wish	T3
Her wish materializes in a voice	M3
Which says the name of Elenor is sweet	U3
Choose that for her Elenor which is light	M
The light of Helen but a lesser light	M
In this our larger world a light to shine	V3
And lure amid the tangled woodland ways	M3
Of this our life a firefly beating wings	M3
Here there amid the thickets of hard days	M3
And to go out at last as all lights do	W3
And leave a memory perhaps but leave	X3
No meaning to be known of any man	Y3
So Elenor Murray is conceived and born	Z3
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But now this Elenor Murray being born	Z3
We start not with her life but with her death	A4
The finding of her body by the river	L
And then as Coroner Merival takes proof	B4
Her life comes forth until the Coroner	L
Traces it to the moment of her death	A4
And thus both life and death of her are known	Q3
This the beginning of the mystery	C4

Edgar Lee Masters

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