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The Triumph

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When life was a cobweb of stars for Beauty who came      In the whisper of leaves or a bird's lone cry in the glen,     On dawn-lit hills and horizons girdled with flame      I sought for the triumph that troubles the faces of men.     With death in the terrible flickering gloom of the fight      I was cruel and fierce with despair; I was naked and bound;      was stricken: and Beauty returned through the shambles of night;      In the faces of men she returned; and their triumph I found.

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