Benjamin De Casseres

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    I have killed the moth flying around my night-light; wingless and dead it lies
    upon the floor.
    (O who will kill the great Time-Moth that eats holes in my soul
    and that burrows in and through my secretest veils!)
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Her Name Liberty
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I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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