THOSE FINGERS
Her tapering fingers ! Ah, what powers repose Within tLeir fragile pml: transparency . . For lifting me aloft or crushing me ! See, as she tears the petals of tho rose Apart, and. musing, crashes and then throws Them, on the rug, rich with its tracery Of Oriental art, how gorgeously The rich blood underneath the fair skui glows! Within those slim, sweet, little fingers lies The power to thrill me to the very soul, , The power to put within my reach the goal , , That long I have beheld with dazzled But notTthe strength to help her busy mother , When the cools leaves and Uey car. t find another'
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Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 124, 15 November 1902, Page 23
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108THOSE FINGERS Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 124, 15 November 1902, Page 23
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