Body, recall.... (1918)

Body, recall not only how much you've been loved,
not only all the beds on which you've lain,
but also those desires which shone
for you in candid eyes,
and trembled in the voice - only for some
adverse chance to thwart them.
Now at last that's all behind you,
and it almost seems as though you
gave yourself to those desires - how they shone,
remember, in the eyes which gazed at you;
how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body.

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