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QueerStoneFemme
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Ma'am or Damsel
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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excerpt from Lullaby (W H Auden)
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral;
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
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so long as space remains
so long as sentient beings remain
i will remain in order to help, to serve,
to make my own contribution
(Buddhist prayer, a favorite of H.H.)
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