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FULFILLED by GEORGE ELLISTON

First Line: I AM WED, BUT NOT TO FLESH
Last Line: FUTURE AND PRESENT AND GRINNING PAST.
Subject(s): FLIES; SMELLS; ODORS; AROMAS; FRAGRANCES;

I am wed, but not to flesh
The mountain calls and the blood in me
Leaps like a passionate wind-blown spray
That is whipped and lashed by a homing sea.

I am bound, but not as men
Would know, or care if they understood,
I am held by a lofty hill
My heart bleeds out its dream in a wood.

I am wed, to the peaks and the heights
Oh I would sing where the sun laughs last
Nothing is mine, yet all I hold
Future and present and grinning past.



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