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To Kathleen

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Still must the poet as of old,     In barren attic bleak and cold,     Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to     Such things as flowers and song and you;     Still as of old his being give     In Beauty's name, while she may live,     Beauty that may not die as long     As there are flowers and you and song.

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