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<h2 class="nobreak">SMILES</h2>
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<div class="verse">Smiles are the words beyond the words</div>
<div class="verse">That thoughts abandon helplessly.</div>
<div class="verse">Upon this nervous shop-girl’s face,</div>
<div class="verse">Where clusters of tiny limpness meet,</div>
<div class="verse">A frightened spark leaps high and drops</div>
<div class="verse">Into the hot pause of a banished love.</div>
<div class="verse">A lustrelessly plump</div>
<div class="verse">Girl beside her does not know</div>
<div class="verse">That her face for moments glows</div>
<div class="verse">Into a helpless solitude.</div>
<div class="verse">Upon an old man’s face</div>
<div class="verse">Are gleams of meek embarrassment—</div>
<div class="verse">The faded presence of some old debt?</div>
<div class="verse">This woman’s face is scorched</div>
<div class="verse">By a torch that falls from weary hands</div>
<div class="verse">And makes her laugh an unheard lie.</div>
<div class="verse">The face of this tamed sprite</div>
<div class="verse">Shimmers with an understanding</div>
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<div class="verse">Of the opaque loss she cannot bear,</div>
<div class="verse">And I see that smiles are sometimes</div>
<div class="verse">Words beyond the words</div>
<div class="verse">That thoughts abandon hopefully.</div>
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