<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3><SPAN name="XI" id="XI"></SPAN>XI</h3>
<h3><i>The Forgiveness</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">If I might see you dead, Beloved—dead—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Your false eyes closed forever to the light,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Your false smile stilled upon my aching sight;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">If I might know that nevermore your head,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Cruelly fair, could lie upon the bed<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Of my torn heart; if I beheld the night<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Free from your living thought—ah! if I might,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Then could my desolate soul be comforted.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">For this is worst of all the woes you gave—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">My heart may not forgive. The tired years go<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And leave the great love weeping for a grave,<br/></span>
<span class="i4">Scorned and unburied, ’neath the open sky.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">I could not love you less, to see you so.<br/></span>
<span class="i4">Loving you more, I might forgive—and die.<br/></span></div>
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