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Sickness

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Waving slowly before me, pushed into the dark,     Unseen my hands explore the silence, drawing the bark     Of my body slowly behind.     Nothing to meet my fingers but the fleece of night     Invisible blinding my face and my eyes! What if in their flight     My hands should touch the door!     What if I suddenly stumble, and push the door     Open, and a great grey dawn swirls over my feet, before     I can draw back!     What if unwitting I set the door of eternity wide     And am swept away in the horrible dawn, am gone down the tide     Of eternal hereafter!     Catch my hands, my darling, between your breasts.     Take them away from their venture, before fate wrests     The meaning out of them.

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