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All night delighting,
then a duel at dawn;
next time let's not
wait so long.
We're old swords, my
lovely— dogged, not
learning from the two
hundred years that our
city's been burning; we're
just ashes to ashes and
in between, yearning.
is gone; no shiny coin
or sacred fawn or star
to set our compass on.
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