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Summer 1944 • Vol. VI No. 3 • Poetry |

Confidence

Thank you for your kind attention.
  How the ear can rest upon the heart.
  The long bolster of a life story
  Fresh at the ear and in every mention
  Full of comfort.

Rest and attend again, for if more beating
  Trembles in the heart to attend
  It will be an undertale and differing story,
  The second speech, a plea, and the more fleeting,
  Told to the friend.

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