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A MAN TO A WOMAN by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: THOUGH YOU COMPLAIN OF ME
Last Line: IN YOUR IDENTITY.
Subject(s): FAME; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; REPUTATION; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
Though you complain of me
That I build no marvel to your name;
That I have never grappled time to proclaim
You everlastingly;

Though no marble, however white it be,
Compels me to win your fame:
My soul is shapen as by a flame
In your identity.



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