Poem by Elinor Wylie

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Upon your heart, which is.the heart of all
My late discovered earth and early sky,
Give me the dearest privilege to die;
Your pity for the velvet of my pall;
Your patience for my grave's inviolate wall;
And for my passing bell, in passing by,
Your voice itself, diminished to a sigh
Above all other sounds made musical.

Meanwhile I swear to you I am content
To live without a sorrow to my name;
To live triumphant, and to die the same,
Upon the fringes of this continent,
This map of Paradise, this scrap of earth
Whereon you burn like flame upon a hearth.

1. The Little Beauty That I Was Allowed
2. In Our Content, before the Autumn Came
3. The Broken Man
4. What Other Name Had Half Expressed the Whole
5. The Pekingese

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