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OUTCRY by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL

First Line: I, LOVING BEAUTY, MUST LIVE
Last Line: EVEN YOU MUST NOT GUESS ALL MY DEARTH!
Subject(s): BEAUTY; LOVE;

I, loving Beauty, must live
Here on this barren bleak road:
O little wind, why wander by
To tantalize, to goad?

You, who bring me perfume
From blossoms on Beauty's breast
Go -- I turn my face away,
I am torn by too great unrest!

Stop, touch this dust ere you pass,
What bloom could lift from such earth?
O little wind, drift on, drift on,
Even you must not guess all my dearth!



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