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So take my vows and scatter them to sea;
Who swears the sweetest is no more than human.
And say no kinder words than these of me:
"Ever she longed for peace, but was a woman!
And thus they are, whose silly female dust
Needs little enough to clutter it and bind it,
Who meet a slanted gaze, and ever must
Go build themselves a soul to dwell behind it."

For now I am my own again, my friend!
This scar but points the whiteness of my breast;
This frenzy, like its betters, spins an end,
And now I am my own.  And that is best.
Therefore, I am immeasurably grateful
To you, for proving shallow, false, and hateful.

Added: 25 Nov 2001 | Last Read: 5 Sep 2008 10:34 AM | Viewed: 2207 times

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