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126 You are the one to tell me what it is— You are a man, and you have married me. What is it worth to-night that you can see More marriage in the dream of one dead kiss Than in a thousand years of life like this? Passion has turned the lock, Pride keeps the key.

"Whatever I have said or left unsaid, Whatever I have done or left undone,— Tell me. Tell me the truth. . . . Are you afraid? Do you think that Love was ever fed with lies But hunger lived thereafter in his eyes? Do you ask me to take moonlight for the sun?"