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  • The Course of True Love

    From “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act I. Sc. 1.

    FOR aught that ever I could read,
    Could ever hear by tale or history,
    The course of true love never did run smooth:
    But, either it was different in blood,
    Or else misgraffèd in respect of years,
    Or else it stood upon the choice of friends;
    Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
    War,...

    William Shakespeare

  • Of Course — I prayed —

    Of Course — I prayed —

    And did God Care?

    He cared as much as on the Air

    A Bird — had stamped her foot —

    And cried "Give Me" —

    My Reason — Life —

    I had not had — but for Yourself —

    'Twere better Charity

    To leave me in the Atom's Tomb —

    Merry, and Nought, and gay, and...