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DARK BLESSING, by                    
First Line: Physicians said the chance was very dim
Last Line: Had found himself in her unseeing eyes.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


Physicians said the chance was very dim
That she might ever see the face of him
Who had grown dear by painting leaden skies
In brilliant colors, lending her his eyes.
Her fingers on his face were cool. The tips
He kissed as they brushed lightly past his lips,
Her fingers could not feel the cruel streak
That zagged its fire-marked way across his cheek;
And he who thought a broken spirit dies,
Had found himself in her unseeing eyes.





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