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The Frost of
Death was on the
Pane -
"Secure your Flower" said he.
Like Sailors
fighting with a Leak
We fought
Mortality -
Our passive Flower
we held to Sea -
To mountain -
to the Sun -
Yet even on his
Scarlet shelf
To crawl the
Frost begun -
We pried him
back
Ourselves we
wedged
Himself and her
between -
Yet easy as the
narrow Snake
He forked his
way along
Till all her
helpless beauty
bent
And then our
wrath begun -
We hunted him
to his Ravine
We chased him
to his Den -
We hated Death
and hated Life
And nowhere
was to go -
Than Sea and
continent there
is
A larger - it
is Woe
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