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FRAGMENTS OF "THE UNICORN"<br />
LlLITH<br />
I think beauty is a bad bargain made of life.<br />
Men's iron sinews hew them room in the world<br />
And use deceits to gain them trophies :<br />
O, when our beauty fails us did we not use<br />
Deceits, where were our room in the world<br />
Only our room in the world ?<br />
Are not the songs and devices of men<br />
Moulds they have made after my scarlet mouth,<br />
Of cunning words and contours of bronze<br />
And viols and gathered air ?<br />
They without song have sung me<br />
Boldly and shamelessly.<br />
I am no wanton, no harlot<br />
I have been pleased and smiled my pleasure,<br />
I am a wife with a woman's natural ways.<br />
Yet through the shadow of the pomegranates<br />
Filters a poison day <strong>by</strong> day,<br />
And to a malady turns<br />
The blond, the ample music of my heart<br />
Inward to eat my heart<br />
My thoughts are worms that suck my softness all<br />
away.<br />
I watch the dumb eyeless hours<br />
Drop their tears, then shapeless moaning drop.<br />
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