By Rhetoric
Date: 2001 Oct 02
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Devotion and a Singular Triumph

I should never look upon your face
with vain and searching eyes.
I should never taste another's lips
of sweetness and mask of clover.
Skin of cream and hair of wheat in winter;
my devotion is a tender triumph.