Page:American Poetry 1922.djvu/127

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Louis Untermeyer


Merging and rending, we wait for the miracle.
      Meanwhile
   The fire runs deeper, consuming these selves in its growth.
Can this be the mystical marriage—this clash and communion;
   This pain of possession that frees and encircles us both?

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