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FRAGMENTS OF "THE UNICORN"<br />
For you were wed to a girl<br />
And I am a woman.<br />
My lonely days are not whips to my honour.<br />
[She dries her tears zvith her hair, then fingers the<br />
Yours, friend.<br />
amulet at her throat.]<br />
Nubian<br />
[Eagerly.] My amulet ! My<br />
amulet<br />
[He speaks gravely.] Small comfort is counsel to<br />
broken lives<br />
But tolerance is medicinal.<br />
In all our textures are loosed<br />
Pulses straining against strictness<br />
Because an easy issue lies therefrom.<br />
(Could they but slink past the hands holding whips<br />
To hunt them from the human pale<br />
Where is the accident to cover ? Spite fears bias.)<br />
I am justified at my heart's plea<br />
He is justified also.<br />
For the eyes of vanity are sleepless—are suspicious.<br />
Are mad with imaginings<br />
Of secret stabs in words, in looks, in gestures.<br />
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