<h3> <SPAN name="tact"></SPAN> Tact<br/> </h3>
<p>Observant of the way she told<br/>
So much of what was true,<br/>
No vanity could long withhold<br/>
Regard that was her due:<br/>
She spared him the familiar guile,<br/>
So easily achieved,<br/>
That only made a man to smile<br/>
And left him undeceived.<br/></p>
<p>Aware that all imagining<br/>
Of more than what she meant<br/>
Would urge an end of everything,<br/>
He stayed; and when he went,<br/>
They parted with a merry word<br/>
That was to him as light<br/>
As any that was ever heard<br/>
Upon a starry night.<br/></p>
<p>She smiled a little, knowing well<br/>
That he would not remark<br/>
The ruins of a day that fell<br/>
Around her in the dark:<br/>
He saw no ruins anywhere,<br/>
Nor fancied there were scars<br/>
On anyone who lingered there,<br/>
Alone below the stars.<br/></p>
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