<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</SPAN></span></p>
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<h3><i>In Extremis</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">Nay, touch me not, nor even with your eyes<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Hold mine, for I would speak you, thus afar,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Aloof and chill and lonely as a star.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The hands that urge, the hungry heart that cries,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Have wrapped my love with love’s elusive lies;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The lips that burn have laid a ruddy scar<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Against the truth that stands without the bar,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And blinded faith with passion’s mysteries.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Night holds a single moon, day one desire—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Her golden sun; and life a love supreme,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Wherein one moment poises, crowned with fire,<br/></span>
<span class="i4">White with the naked truth. Beyond control,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">’Tis here, my Sun, in love’s last hour extreme,<br/></span>
<span class="i4">I hold aloft my bare, adoring soul.<br/></span></div>
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