Pansies (Lawrence)/Basta!

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BASTA!
When a man can love no more
and feel no more
and desire has failed
and the heart is numb

then all he can do
it to say: It is so!
I've got to put up with it
and wait.
This is a pause, how long a pause I know not,
in my very being.

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