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A Dead Lily.

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I     The South had saluted her mouth     Till her mouth was sweet with the South.     II     And the North with his breathings low     Made the blood in her veins like his snow.     III     And the West with his smiles and his art     Poured his honey of life in her heart.     IV     And the East had in whisperings told     His secrets more precious than gold.     V     So she grew to a beautiful thought     Which a godhead of love had wrought.     VI     As strange how the power begot it     As why - but to kill it and rot it.

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