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Volume VII - Modernist Magazines Project

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Last FiresBy Lily ThicknesseWHEN all the passion and the painThat forged our flesh and spirit oneAre past, and sweet desire is vain,And youth and hope and life are gone,Will then our end be like the west,Where sunset fires have paled to gloom,But give their gorgeous crimson's bestTo light with splendour day's long doom ?Ah, then, when we must die, we twoClaim the dear earth and solemn skyAs comrades in the way we go,From dawn to night's dark mystery.

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