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A Woman's Word

"Never" you said.
And I went back the road and wept;
And wished to be dead
Because I'd kept
An empty tryst.
And wished to be dead
Beyond, below the power of pride
In the dug-out of Christ
With all the lost lovers, beast and human,
Men and women
Who have died

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