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MISTRUST by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: YOU LOOK AT ME WITH WAN, BRIGHT EYES
Last Line: "LET HER BE FREE, LET HER BE FREE""?"
Subject(s): RELATIONSHIPS; TRUST; WANDERING & WANDERERS;

YOU look at me with wan, bright eyes
When in the deeper world I stray:
You fear some hidden ambush lies
In wait to call me, "Come away."

What if I see behind the veil
Your starry self beseeching me,
Or at its stern command grow pale,
"Let her be free, let her be free"?



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