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I Shall Not Share

There is a madrigal,
by Dowland writ
unnamed,
 
   but full eight voiced and magical,
     like woven light,
     like silken tapestries
     at night
     reflecting candles' flames
     and furling in a breeze,
 
now ringing in my ears
and lilting, luting, me
above myself.
It is a thing too bright
and sensual
to bear,
 
     so ravishing of sense
     so lovely, warm,
     in its polyphony,
     within its melody,
 
that when I hear it
I'm laid low, disarmed
and brought to tears.
It's mine, all mine, for now.
“I shall not", says
my selfish heart, --
share it ever with the world".

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