The Empty Quatrain (Greetings and Inscriptions)

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A flawless cup: how delicate and fine / The flowing curve of every jewelled line! / Look, turn it up or down, 't is perfect still, -- / But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

April, 1904.

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