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Calamus 39

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

39.

SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for  
 fear I effuse unreturned love; But now I think there is no unreturned love—the  
 pay is certain, one way or another,   [ begin page 376 ]ppp.01500.384.jpg Doubtless I could not have perceived the universe, 
 or written one of my poems, if I had not freely  
 given myself to comrades, to love.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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