<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3>III</h3>
<h3><i>False</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">The black sky stretches to the pallid sea,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">As a false love and a dismantled heart.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Empty of faith and eager to depart.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">He takes her yet once more, submissively,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Against his lips, then, laughing, drifts away<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Swiftly within the dawning of the day.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Blindly she tosses up her foam-white hands,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Crying for mercy, and the wind—her hair—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Lashes the wide-sailed ships and leaves them bare.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Blindly she hurls her rage against the sands.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">There, in the cold sky where her love had lain<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Scornful, aloof, the sun reviews her pain.<br/></span></div>
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