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 life was a cobweb of stars for Beauty who came
 * In the whisper of leaves or a bird's lone cry in the glen,

On dawn-lit hills and horizons girdled with flame
 * I sought for the triumph that troubles the faces of men.

With death in the terrible flickering gloom of the fight
 * I was cruel and fierce with despair; I was naked and bound;
 * was stricken: and Beauty returned through the shambles of night;
 * In the faces of men she returned; and their triumph I found.