Such a buzz and burst!

Here just one thing's not alive,

One that was at first—

But life palls.

IV

Yes, my heart, I know,

Just my heart's stone dead—

Yes, just so.

Sick with heat, those worms

Drop down scorched and overfed—

No more need of germs!

Let them go.

V

Yes, but you now, look,

You, the rouged stage female

With a crook,

Chalked Arcadian sham,

You that made my soul's sleep's dream ail—

Your soul fit to damn?

Shut the book.

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