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PROGRESS OF LOVE: ADMONITION, by                    
First Line: My answer to your skeptic tenderness
Last Line: Which held thus lightly penetrates the bone.
Subject(s): Love


My answer to your skeptic tenderness
Shook off the brittle casing of the word
To stand revealed in likeness to a sword,
Its hardihood the better to profess.
"Forever" stood Excalibur, its Yes
The flashing sign of the divine absurd
Whereon all slights but death may be conferred
And universal No's fall powerless.

The sword is yours to do with as you will:
Fitting your hand, it knows no other hand;
It will not tarnish though you spare or kill;
Yet I who forged it bid you understand
This is no child's blunt weapon that you own
Which held thus lightly penetrates the bone.





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