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Butler Pennsylvania XLII

Like the faun
must
when observed
with more graceful
strides
seek distance,
so also did she
whom I had sighted
that morning
from where I stood,
withdrawn, facing
the High School's entrance,
into which she, on stately gait,
vanished.

Hurriedly
I wove
through milling crowds
to the wide steps
where the doors were
under the pillars
then up the stately
winding staircase.

Why was it shame
I felt then
on thinking
they had watched me
all along
being drawn
to that glimpsed vision
of my vain search?

from: The Butler Pennsylvania Poems © (http://www.geocities.com/clcing/)
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