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Shatter glass, spit out your bay, desist
Lustful dogs who bark and bay, desist
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Cold as silver shadows list on stone
Sun’s last ray and heat of day desist
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Oracles insist, and dead men know
Luck and fickle lovers may desist
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Words upon the wind; I told you this
Take your magic, walk away, desist
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Time to reap the harvest you have sown
Silence, let your mournful lay desist
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Scry no more, lest death thy mirror kiss
Havoc, all the angels say, desist
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Madness, this, to love by will alone
Yield the ghost, Felicia; pray desist!
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© Gail Foster 2016
