Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie
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_Sylvan_.
Let's have a better tale. You followed me. _Katrina_. Sylvan, how dare you make me out so vile? _Sylvan_. How dare you mean to make this body of mine A thing with no thought in it but your beauty? _Katrina_. You shall not speak so wickedly. You've had The half of my truth only: here's the whole. It was from you I fled! I hoped to make My grannam's lonely cottage something safe From you and what I hated in you. _Sylvan_. Love?-- Ah, so it's all useless. _Katrina_. I feared to know You wanted me,--horribly I feared it. And now you've found me out. _Sylvan_. Is this the truth?-- No help for it, then. |
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