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Arthur Symons - The Pale Woman
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I spoke to the pale and heavy-lidded woman, and said: 
O pale and heavy-lidded woman, why is your check 
Pale as the dead, and what are your eyes afraid lest they speak? 
And the woman answered me: I am pale as the dead, 
For the dead have loved me, and I dream of the dead. 
But I see in the eyes of the living, as a living fire, 
The thing that my soul in triumph tells me I have forgot; 
And therefore mine eyelids are heavy, and I raise them not, 
For always I see in the eyes of men the old desire, 
And I fear left they see that I desire their desire.
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