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Embankment At Night, Before The War

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Charity.     By the river     In the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down,     Dropping and starting from sleep     Alone on a seat     A woman crouches.     I must go back to her.     I want to give her     Some money. Her hand slips out of the breast of her gown     Asleep. My fingers creep     Carefully over the sweet     Thumb-mound, into the palm's deep pouches.     So, the gift!     God, how she starts!     And looks at me, and looks in the palm of her hand!     And again at me!     I turn and run     Down the Embankment, run for my life.     But why? - why?     Because of my heart's     Beating like sobs, I come to myself, and stand     In the street spilled over splendidly     With wet, flat lights. What I've done     I know not, my soul is in strife.     The touch was on the quick. I want to forget.

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