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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERPETUA, by HENRY LONGAN STUART Poet's Biography
First Line: With you all women fall
Last Line: Marvel that doubts can be.
Subject(s): Details; Things
First Line: With you all women fall
Last Line: Marvel that doubts can be.
Subject(s): Details; Things
With you all women fall:
Through you all women rise.
There is no tale at all
Whispered of rape or wrong
Nor one exultant song
Strange to your steadfast eyes.
Upon your cheeks have flamed
Old fires of sacrifice:
You stood nigh Vashti, shamed.
Your little hands are red
From Holofernes' head
And sweet with Miriam's spice.
I am the slave of years,
You of all time made free:
I fail mid doubts and fears.
You, by one impulse stayed,
Gracious and undismayed
Marvel that doubts can be.
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