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First Line: I said: / for ever and ever, must I follow you
Last Line: Taunt him with his evil and his vice.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible


I said:
for ever and for ever, must I follow you
through the stones?
I catch at you -- you lurch:
you are quicker than my hand-grasp.
I wondered at you.
I shouted -- dear -- mysterious -- beautiful --
white myrtle-flesh.
I was splintered and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
Could a daemon avenge this hurt,
I would cry to him -- could a ghost,
I would shout -- O evil,
follow this god,
taunt him with his evil and his vice.





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