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Lo! she starts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To feel the day is home", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose too-near night will put two different hearts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To beat as near as flesh can let them come.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Guess how she joys in her feared going, nor opes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her eyes for fear of fearing at her joy.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now is the pained arrival of all hopes.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With the half-thought she scarce knows how to toy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Oh, let her wait a moment or a day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And prepare for the fray", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For which her thoughts not ever quite prepare!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With the real day’s arrival she’s half wroth.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though she wish what she wants, she yet doth stay.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her dreams yet merged are", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In the slow verge of sleep, which idly doth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The accurate hope of things remotely mar.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Part from the windows the small curtains set", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sight more than light to omit!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look on the general fields, how bright they lie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under the broad blue sky,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cloudless, and the beginning of the heat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Does the sight half ill-treat!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bride hath wakened. Lo! she feels her shaking", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Heart better all her waking!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her breasts are with fear’s coldness inward clutched", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And more felt on her grown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That will by hands other than hers be touched", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And will find lips sucking their budded crown.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lo! the thought of the bridegroom’s hands already", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Feels her about where even her hands are shy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her thoughts shrink till they become unready.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She gathers up her body and still doth lie.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She vaguely lets her eyes feel opening.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In a fringed mist each thing", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Looms, and the present day is truly clear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But to her sense of fear.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a hue, light lies on her lidded sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And she half hates the inevitable light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Open the windows and the doors all wide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lest aught of night abide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or, like a ship’s trail in the sea, survive", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What made it there to live!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She lies in bed half waiting that her wish", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Grow bolder or more rich", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To make her rise, or poorer, to oust fear,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And she rise as a common day were here.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That she would be a bride in bed with man", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The parts where she is woman do insist", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And send up messages that shame doth ban", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From being dreamed but in a shapeless mist.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She opes her eyes, the ceiling sees above", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shutting the small alcove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thinks, till she must shut her eyes again,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another ceiling she this night will know,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another house, another bed, she lain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In a way she half guesses; so", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She shuts her eyes to see not the room she", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Soon will no longer see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Let the wide light come through the whole house now", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a herald with brow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Garlanded round with roses and those leaves", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That love for its love weaves!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Between her and the ceiling this day’s ending", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A man’s weight will be bending.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lo! with the thought her legs she twines, well knowing", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A hand will part them then;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fearing that entering in her, that allowing", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That will make softness begin rude at pain.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If ye, glad sunbeams, are inhabited", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By sprites or gnomes that dally with the day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whisper her, if she shrink that she’ll be bled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That love’s large bower is doored in this small way.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now will her grave of untorn maidenhood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be dug in her small blood.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Assemble ye at that glad funeral", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And weave her scarlet pall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O pinings for the flesh of man that often", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did her secret hours soften", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And take her willing and unwilling hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where pleasure starteth up.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Come forth, ye moted gnomes, unruly band,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That come so quick ye spill your brimming cup;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye that make youth young and flesh nice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the glad spring and summer sun arise;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye by whose secret presence the trees grow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Green, and the flowers bud, and birds sing free,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When with the fury of a trembling glow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bull climbs on the heifer mightily!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sing at her window, ye heard early wings", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In whose song joy’s self sings!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Buzz in her room along her loss of sleep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O small flies, tumble and creep", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Along the counterpane and on her fingers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In mating pairs. She lingers.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Along her joined-felt legs a prophecy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Creeps like an inward hand.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look how she tarries! Tell her: fear not glee!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Come up! Awake! Dress for undressing! Stand!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look how the sun is altogether all!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Life hums around her senses petalled close.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Come up! Come up! Pleasure must thee befall!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Joy to be plucked, O yet ungathered rose!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now is she risen. Look how she looks down,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After her slow down-slid night-gown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On her unspotted while of nakedness", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save where the beast’s difference from her white frame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hairily triangling black below doth shame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her to-day’s sight of it, till the caress", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the chemise cover her body. Dress!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stop not, sitting upon the bed’s hard edge,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stop not to wonder at by-and-by, nor guess!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "List to the rapid birds i’th’ window ledge!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Up, up and washed! Lo! she is up half-gowned,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For she lacks hands to have power to button fit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The white symbolic wearing, and she’s found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By her maids thus, that come to perfect it.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Look how over her seeing-them-not her maids", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Smile at each other their same thought of her!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Already is she deflowered in others’ thoughts.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With curious carefulness of inlocked braids,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With hands that in the sun minutely stir,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One works her hair into concerted knots.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another buttons tight the gown; her hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Touching the body’s warmth of life, doth band", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her thoughts with the rude bridegroom’s hand to be.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The first then, on the veil placed mistily,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lays on her head, her own head sideways leaning,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The garland soon to have no meaning.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The other, at her knees, makes the white shoon", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fit close the trembling feet, and her eyes see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The stockinged leg, road upwards to that boon", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where all this day centres its revelry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now is she gowned completely, her face won", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To a flush. Look how the sun", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shines hot and how the creeper, loosed, doth strain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hit the heated pane!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She is all white, all she’s awaiting him.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her eyes are bright and dim.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her hands are cold, her lips are dry, her heart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pants like a pursued hart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now is she issued. List how all speech pines", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then bursts into a wave of speech again!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now is she issued out to where the guests", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look on her daring not to look at them.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hot sun outside shines.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A sweaty oiliness of hot life rests", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On the day’s face this hour.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A mad joy’s pent in each warm thing’s hushed power.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Hang with festoons and wreaths and coronals", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The corridors and halls!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be there all round the sound of gay bells ringing!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let there be echoing singing!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pour out like a libation all your joy!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shout, even ye children, little maid and boy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose belly yet unfurred yet whitely decks", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A sexless thing of sex!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shout out as if ye knew what joy this is", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You clap at in such bliss!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This is the month and this the day.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye must not stay.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sally ye out and in warm clusters move", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To where beyond the trees the belfry’s height", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Does in the blue wide heaven a message prove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Somewhat calm, of delight.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now flushed and whispering loud sally ye out", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To church! The sun pours on the ordered rout,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all their following eyes clasp round the bride:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They feel like hands her bosom and her side;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like the inside of the vestment next her skin,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They round her round and fold each crevice in;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They lift her skirts up, as to tease or woo", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The cleft hid thing below;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And this they think at her peeps in their ways", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in their glances plays.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "No more, no more of church or feast, for these", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are outward to the day, like the green trees", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That flank the road to church and the same road", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Back from the church, under a higher sun trod.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "These have no more part than a floor or wall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In the great day’s true ceremonial.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The guests themselves, no less than they that wed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hold these as nought but corridors to bed.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So are all things, that between this and dark", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Will be passed, a dim work", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of minutes, hours seen in a sleep, and dreamed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Untimed and wrongly deemed.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bridal and the walk back and the feast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are all for each a mist", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where he sees others through a blurred hot notion", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of drunk and veined emotion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And a red race runs through his seeing and hearing,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A great carouse of dreams seen each on each,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till their importunate careering", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A stopped, half-hurting point of mad joy reach.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The bridegroom aches for the end of this and lusts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To know those paps in sucking gusts,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To put his first hand on that belly’s hair", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And feel for the lipped lair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fortress made but to be taken, for which", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He feels the battering ram grow large and itch.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The trembling glad bride feels all the day hot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On that still cloistered spot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where only her nightly maiden hand did feign", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A pleasure’s empty gain.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, of the others, most will whisper at this,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Knowing the spurt it is;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And children yet, that watch with looking eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Will now thrill to be wise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In flesh, and with big men and women act", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The liquid tickling fact", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For whose taste they’ll in secret corners try", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They scarce know what still dry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Even ye, now old, that to this come as to", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your past, your own joy throw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into the cup, and with the younger drink", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That which now makes you think", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of what love was when love was. (For not now", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your winter thoughts allow).", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drink with the hot day, the bride’s sad joy and", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bridegroom’s haste inreined,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The memory of that day when ye were young", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, with great paeans sung", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Along the surface of the depths of you,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "You paired and the night saw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The day come in and you did still pant close,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And still the half-fallen flesh distending rose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "No matter now or past or future. Be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lovers’ age in your glee!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Give all your thoughts to this great muscled day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That like a courser tears", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bit of Time, to make night come and say", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The maiden mount now her first rider bears!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flesh pinched, flesh bit, flesh sucked, flesh girt around,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flesh crushed and ground,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "These things inflame your thoughts and make ye dim", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In what ye say or seem!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rage out in naked glances till ye fright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your ague of delight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In glances seeming clothes and thoughts to hate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That fleshes separate!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stretch out your limbs to the warm day outside,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To feel it while it bide!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For the strong sun, the hot ground, the green grass,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each far lake’s dazzling glass,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And each one’s flushed thought of the night to be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are all one joy-hot unity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In a red bacchic surge of thoughts that beat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On the mad temples like an ire’s amaze,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In a fury that hurts the eyes, and yet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth make all things clear with a blur around,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The whole group’s soul like a glad drunkard sways", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bounds up from the ground!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ay, though all these be common people heaping", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To church, from church, the bridal keeping,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet all the satyrs and big pagan haunches", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in taut flesh delight and teats and paunches,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And whose course, trailing through the foliage, nears", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The crouched nymph that half fears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In invisible rush, behind, before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This decent group move, and with hot thoughts store", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The passive souls round which their mesh they wind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The while their rout, loud stumbling as if blind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Makes the hilled earth wake echoing from her sleep", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the lust in their leap.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Io! Io! There runs a juice of pleasure’s rage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through these frames’ mesh,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That now do really ache to strip and wage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon each others’ flesh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The war that fills the womb and puts milk in", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The teats a man did win,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The battle fought with rage to join and fit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And not to hurt or hit!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Io! Io! Be drunken like the day and hour!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shout, laugh and overpower", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With clamour your own thoughts, lest they a breath", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Utter of age or death!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now is all absolute youth, and the small pains", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That thrill the filled veins", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Themselves are edged in a great tickling joy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That halts ever ere it cloy.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Put out of mind all things save flesh and giving", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The male milk that makes living!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rake out great peals of joy like grass from ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In your o’ergrown soul found!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Make your great rut dispersedly rejoice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With laugh or voice,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if all earth, hot sky and tremulous air", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A mighty cymbal were!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Set the great Flemish hour aflame!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your senses of all leisure maim!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cast down with blows that joy even where they hurt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hands that mock to avert!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All things pick up to bed that lead ye to", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be naked that ye woo!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tear up, pluck up, like earth who treasure seek,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When the chest’s ring doth peep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The thoughts that cover thoughts of the acts of heat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This great day does intreat!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now seem all hands pressing the paps as if", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They meant them juice to give!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now seem all things pairing on one another,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hard flesh soft flesh to smother,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hairy legs and buttocks balled to split", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "White legs mid which they shift.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet these mixed mere thoughts in each mind but speak", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The day’s push love to wreak,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The man’s ache to have felt possession,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The woman’s man to have on,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The abstract surge of life clearly to reach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bodies’ concrete beach.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet some work of this doth the real day don.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now are skirts lifted in the servants’ hall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the whored belly’s stall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ope to the horse that enters in a rush,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Half late, too near the gush.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And even now doth an elder guest emmesh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A flushed young girl in a dark nook apart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And leads her slow to move his produced flesh.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look how she likes with something in her heart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To feel her hand work the protruded dart!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But these are thoughts or promises or but", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Half the purpose of rut,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And this is lust thought-of or futureless", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or used but lust to ease.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do ye the circle true of love pretend,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, what Nature, intend!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do ye actually ache", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The horse of lust by reins of life to bend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pair in love for love’s creating sake!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bellow! Roar! Stallions be or bulls that fret", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On their seed’s hole to get!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Surge for that carnal complement that will", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your flesh’s young juice thrill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the wet mortised joints at which you meet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The coming life to greet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In the tilled womb that will bulge till it do", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The plenteous curve of spheric earth renew!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ye, that wed to-day, guess these instincts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the concerted group in hints", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yourselves from Nature naturally have,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And your good future brave!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Close lips, nude arms, felt breasts and organ mighty,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do your joy’s night work rightly!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Teach them these things, O day of pomp of heat!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Leave them in thoughts such as must make the feat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of flesh inevitable and natural as", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pissing when wish doth press!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let them cling, kiss and fit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Together with natural wit,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And let the night, coming, teach them that use", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For youth is in abuse!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let them repeat the link, and pour and pour", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their pleasure till they can no more!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ay, let the night watch over their repeated", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Coupling in darkness, till thought’s self, o’erheated,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do fret and trouble, and sleep come on hurt frames,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, mouthing each one’s names,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They in each other’s arms dream still of love", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And something of it prove!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, if they wake, teach them to recommence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For an hour was far hence;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till their contacted flesh, in heat o’erblent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With joy, sleep sick, while, spent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The stars, the sky pale in the East and shiver", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where light the night doth sever,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with clamour of joy and life’s young din", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The warm new day come in.", "indent": 0 } ] ] }