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"Last songs from Vagabondia / Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey ; designs by Tom B. Meteyard [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH8719.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2025.
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JAPANESE LOVE-SONG
HOW you start away!— As a flame starts from a gust.Flame-heart o' the dust!Sudden startle of dismay!Swift triumph in distrust!
Flash and tremble of escape,Fierce with desire!Rippled water shot with fireWary of the rapeOf the eyes that sire!
Radiant no-and-yes!Deer-flight and panther-thirst!Blest and accurst!Sword-splendour past the guessOf Heaven's best and Hell's worst!
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So you sprang up from yourself,Burnt to supremacies,Star-demoned by a kiss —Night turned fire-elf, —Wonder and all amiss!
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