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you could with me now, be—and take
what you need. nothing can e’er be given.
You are not the first who has promised a perfect reflection
in the glass of your blue-mirrored eyes.
please, do not say yes again.
Those who worshipped in ancient temples
are gone, and so the act with the actor.
of what use now is marble?
who could dare listen to the angel?
sterile as the bone-white ruins are your forms.