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Now and Then
Dreams of good
drown in angry blood.
Romeo and Juliet,
Leila and Majnun,
loving children
cheated by a feud,
sundered, bewildered, dead,
breathe from the tomb.
to hover on the chill
of fury and hate
a fugitive goodwill,
hardly to be
before it dissipates.
Oh, humanity!