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A Triad - Sonnet

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Three sang of love together: one with lips         Crimson, with cheeks and bosom in a glow,     Flushed to the yellow hair and finger-tips;         And one there sang who soft and smooth as snow         Bloomed like a tinted hyacinth at a show;     And one was blue with famine after love,         Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low     The burden of what those were singing of.     One shamed herself in love; one temperately         Grew gross in soulless love, a sluggish wife;     One famished died for love. Thus two of three         Took death for love and won him after strife;     One droned in sweetness like a fattened bee:         All on the threshold, yet all short of life.

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