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kim-ruzek · 3 months
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I love this trio so damn much <3
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libidomechanica · 6 months
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O too that he
A Meredith sonnet sequence
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And live and feeble, fainting row, with his   chirrup at her! She heart that we were so   whit behind, a hand topples down lives: yet she made love-light of farewells. ’ She shouldst owe. And a gloomy morning: then what it waits   for the year. Or your veil and take the green   these, she tribe of my body was as fair, thou’s broke like diamonds flaring can burst out among pillar alone king; they crammed the   guilty within your fair feather couple   puts on her equipage: but do now above the steep pine-grown the glint of flowing violet eyes like a beer to disturb your   hand age in the way th’ earth, Belovéd   Head unders, to where the walked, and often feeling will never spellbound for fear.
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Year be fairest Cupid’s day. When I fall   down and once was the mourners be, to lead   away, like hues and dive in true as bristly and they open unto his robbery had a girl has gotten ghostly roots   of the fair or brake. Durst not thy owne slack,   gold, upon it, he on the woman is to places if i could have left beloved. To a man and a ho, and slipped by   my own rose, her winds his pipe to wile they   call her mood. And often spoken, I keep her veins fresh fire, she asked to a single purest Virtue clothes, and not so; I love   to burst Joy’s graceful form and wrath did pain,   and so our mother. This Gama turned the colors is it, yet them therewith snow.
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As my face in their arms embraced, so that   sweetest air. Mere coming Garden of that   it would needs must bears—this, her Willy. And wilt this my scribe but get a winter break her: stronger, but gaed up in Pennsylvanus   weep that I felt so gay, lambs we’ll gentle   blue: to-morrow’d legs, a heauenly Grace; which to reason, and the girl to venged for his rough to shepherd’s now, thou, that self,   or pines, and my heart, and wound Leander   in his head. The only threshold, he, or crooked all them: I stood upright, alone their doubled hate, hate of my body shoulders   of heart. It’s neither waist, all the meed   of gods, but the saddle, as her puir Jenny for some devours and light. In sweet.
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And finger that he was they reach time preferr’d   in his haunches rose and polish’d too   bold, I fear they seeing it, of Stella, whose utter’d be. What we two life, in the vortex of our grief assuage compile shame;   and in the Blind me word. I hae seen in   her self, her Willy. With that each the beauteous as thee, Where did it at seventeen skiing the night, alone. Beetle, nor knots,   no earth and griping so flagless as bright   speak to high, so well attent to no death, from weary, a springs of night, under mounted snow; there his estate; while ourself,   and shall joy but being can like the   influences of promise of the queen: my liege, ’ said he: nor blind turned for he’s to me.
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Whom heaven to keep dropping unions marriage.   She would bring you are free woman ties   a slavery, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to linger to flow of truthful gods. I know you kiss drop down and a duteous   empression, gives to wag their stept, took there nature   heavens, and rings, her for pity restored; now be still’d? These dull not miss, since I Ioues cup filled together haire with all Danae’s   start upon his ample fields, and mean,   and swell—this captive to naebody; i’ll take the pole; in the grass, oft hand life of thee, as those year weakness: it was gone and   tooth’d with yourself his peer. My ravish’d ivory   comb that man not die, till to only pretty Peg, my dearer for now the strook.
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And do I owe you, by what their lean as   cleare eyes; thou, that died slave to hide. To the   lark shot up and sucking here; I fill my bloody too; That is his Sign, and wave, the lips of her Beauty began the flat all   those, thus bold knight at noon, unlook’d on Cupid’s   bow, front, and neither that we’ll cut the sting hoofs bare only cross nor ever had a blocked and such ends, and yet he story,   first, that men and clasp it on my truthful   king me, knowing down the ground; one day that I can looked in lazy tolerance. Unto it myself that. Stella, Starre of love.   Since our two swim naked man can hardly   blazon forgotten—in folly. If all my griefs to keepe there, in the unexpress.
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By then he was she went, and now the fall   of dog food. On this, not a prize reserving   spire and force accounter and a tent whisper in her to redeem his small adore his beads both yourself be dazzled by   love, I will not mine and fills with sharp   sophister, with claim on claim his slaues, he flies that does not unattending in the mice huddled and mount up with answer loth to   my face or warm air draw the gods in my   still to these, looking in a cataract on and with tears, vacant and loves and rave at all … he took a white blade of freedom   a drug that men kill or sand, the genuine   arms failed in honour all the cars go by. Where, by might daughter were mind with grief.
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Burnt thee and staggers in meaning lived it.   Made and so more, as woolly as I came,   as girls. But we find; but only pretty country for he’s two face, and yet a manger fear, in a vicious constant wing as   she my deare ashes should stealth. And in this   is the falling my though it fades away she cast light.-Praised their rents. The sleep so swift Hebrus to bid a sweet hand is altogether   if i could, like memory’s half   this gaine is over your loving: o, but approach through a cloudy night. Love, I always face? This man, thick as thy meed. Thinking   through it’s today to his neck hung with Hero,   not to loue! My cheek or earl; but, at leaped lively vine o’er my days gone for thee.
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That thou take him: last she said, were I will   be most rich the bumblebee visits wires of   the texts write a sweets my paper, showed, the day to such Jugling them coughed at the dear lady, for it. Her bring you, war on his   arm and with azure pillars of Ida   yet what of insolence he would die for my coward her woman ties a knot so short was the felon winds are at full hear   and worship her? Your change; and a yellow   dirt, ye’ll cut moment to serve, abandoned skins; they first Romans chose: Fabricius from dawn to hang the wakeful angels, where   the badge, and shield—shocked, like rock aloft, when   Cyril, you shall I not kept their through the air and yet a companions meet, old ways.
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Some did vanished as one another side;   lonely by the past midnight is left of   farewell. If i could rush upon thy loving happening no caused. Their bells of bloody should provoke his the texts written me, is   one through the Reflex of ours suddenly   repent, an amorous heart of all; what is i want you flie from thence, my love of your eyes, and closer than your painting race   so sordid any heare three broadcast over   hie, laughing do not blue noon’s tradesman’s way, away comfort but of the Herald to touch but must not peace in their sport;   both my soul’s full tilts, a columned entry   shone, mice-scaled, as judge pronounce, went out the this is sipping of innumerable.
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Whisper in the grim Swiss denied, and sphere;   griefe but in between you only the binds   howl to the ill omens of the grounded man was it cannot be the lights against despairing what your handmaid fill the truce   was sunk so longer it was the world must   be the fingertips, shame, as truth that’s sae means to pitied be. Good and the garden, an’ ken ye how Meg o’ the blood, in Christ   all I love are curled up her breaks the hill,   attends. In a ground; those round would she told can return against the dreadful fire, by self-example lungs, to overwrought, love,   in the bark was won by Age, Houres, living   wretched beneath the world with he strived, the way, and earthly fix how he her!
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My father dumb nor blind. Never change now   the fair. And a kirtle, and fause and strength   of coiled into two mournful familiar, universe. As much live with rivals or sprites, this sweets, but then he well for loves   are sleep, thinking of a dreams are full headlong   the price of tears, whom men I built a Chambermaid. He sets the divided lord, dare I bid Love, Hero, sacrifice that   him. While then my break, which soever feare he   stalk is wearing sire arose the lily all of this or the ware or a pool in the heart in hopeless her own Ellis   Island, you will be, for me. If not worn.   On seas that never knight with my pretty pleasant smiled, already still remains all.
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‘Come down,—burst, or quiet nest, coming down.   And is of the restrained aside, and sever   must kneeled; the orchestra warming Polly Stewart, the martini he is under the this thy lip, the rich foreshadow   and does not to judge to banquet of   love let’s fall be offered with leaves; I say, sun’s love and a duteous Lilly of the spur that sweeter changed, and dinted fields and   inspiring aromatic fumes, and   made him all in vain, i’ll borrowed to cinders by their lean as I saw that faire night, but pure as a black down from his look.   Attended be: see, doo young Jessie, unseen   unto herself, to nuptial tilts, a cap of flowers and knock-kneed brought to the child?
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By self-same sweeter becomes in mine will   be trusty night, alone is not God in   His perversity unties the acres, a cap of flower themselves above to the fair feather red nor stainless thou didn’t   let men desire was seen; these musk-rose,   a heaven preserving&never knew that thought by green. The arias of long woo’d your wife, let his might come to mounting   ravished him in the park which touching, haue   so frothy though seas, when though I have charged deride his courtly now will deformed the blood will anxious maze of the messenger   of water wandering I seek it in,   for thirsting flowers. Either raged in ice, now to the pole; in the glistering net.
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A heart he shore, that seem to keep her counted   smiled up herself in my Lady thorn,   batt’ning madrigals. In my head, and found, sweet child upon him he sees, and bore his eye, to bind itself but mark, her Willy.   With the Netherby Hall, maud will not by   innumerous as you sit or fall: not through depth and great a stitch on to such a light delight the kind. And how to this pity,   fling in. The bar and ran into shade,   or whether the bow, with me oft hand in heart can bind mean, and, wanting leaves, and the shock on the while another Road enterchange   in thy posies soon on there, the earth   retains; long and round to win her good, which a sigh—it was almost to the water.
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Good which, and once again and aching   Paradoxical, clever, or swarming up   through better becomes nectar bowls. But alas, failes me, for life, singing for, where is youth, some coverture. Fair, yet this text;   nor do wrong: this ease to my fortune once   more apt for the sky resign in mine and the shore, when two armies and Erycine, disprinces were seeing to travail   thorowest words enough alone in their ancient   fable of long expected lightly to turns a change thy faults are: against the bright her side shatter chained as this like Cupid   weep away my life supple, since I   was wet. She tremble Venus’ swans and kill; or else for the level of a high, sdeath!
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The human prior to another straight!   I loved of the best, wilt not, the child; she   pine-tree drop some part. For in the reckless Muse grown the present’st thou, O cruel. Stillness touched think and petals are perfect face; the   wood. The name it was moved through a cloud; hear’st   the first a nation maid in men’s impostures new begun, of her own goodness, or cobweb lawn. Because ye hae the maids   dance is asleep must tell your footsteps of   Neæra’s hair fool! Less sins the citizens’ applause the clashed your complexion lack. Of the Hall! To yielding his poets can you   to see except this cheating it all in   wild revolt, and my wrath, my Philly, so beauty would riot, making purple weeds.
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The Muses’ sons of care, and learned hands   he knew nod to none for me and hope to   say, and kinsmen, and after fight insinuations to your in mine, they dear, to your rosary of a bride: but their vain   her glory up into that which the spur   that you from a scheme; she meadow under hearts, with curse. Chilled to looked dolphins, when this is my very street of before it, the   eye! When these enclareted; and call a   beer to foreign lands do sing, the damsel gay in early, and in either skin and, crying and there a bent light to be the   happy he were I shriek of joy and believed   the Darkness and Bayona’s holy idiot doth love the prayed her in their song.
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Somebody was over the eye,—thinking   through, the stream of those with arms empale   forever. Her false—is no tell you felt the law that sweet smells sweet dream had you had ended. With the white and else can tell her   face. One was t’other fool who will but look   the rainbow grass hangs by her limbs like a single good. Life is of the came, the mix’d with deliberate human forest sights my   passion put to loss of powers all, while   he bins, comes back with suddenly, sweets, but for your eyes, in colour day before savage that she smiles at my fault is youth; we   did disguise, that is old, its lips I travel   for his world; she wine. My one especially do we affections to ashes.
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Forgets I will becomes to bleed at even   drive a car again. And is strife, singing   tongue untaught should love inherited like designed, the human: you as Ra knew ’twas borne, would, were glad as I cam past, ye   snufft and she would you in their godly gear,   have sleeker time I lie with encroaching Pleasure in vain, and if we’re lost, lost bride’s- men, and wan. She meadow and a nose three.   Not to flight to say, till grief! Till to might   a kind of this courteously—we would I have vowed he like dark, where thee: thou single good broad rumour lives, the woman, he that   out the sought his centric happier men.   To fold when He, the way thee that, that full meaning in war on his blues band, your heats.
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Stella, whose error of the good counted   light as Love’s delights of Time, and both blazing   these pretence the best, and there made him name it will in all mindes resembled, swaying on the love of my little shy   at first snowdrop’s inner and tumbling wail’d,   and man. And in black where to pick upon the smart I tried tunes, whence holding, breath; and, sdeath—and ours to the dark, wherein my life,   in a breath most evident; for laik o’   gear ye lightly me, but to drink of the light above there upon the hazel copses green, with nought there of horror of some   said, I tell me why man has such your   promises less. This kind, gave sad swain to find, by sun and fain have loves a monster’s chair.
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Leaving sense of her Eyes with Stellaes grace,   beat my slack Muse not bleed at all that we   do. Bad luck a better at this sweet is ever there unsearchable replied. At length upon thy pity as men stray’d to   find, as when what I bleeding out of earthstone?   A good part from our palmes of flesh, and space like Cato cowered cry: all we fool, the wild that was, because, when you   know Love’s black-eyed like death-hour royal   malady should die: till to me, another waist, all wed; and in thousand firme loue she lies, dry as this Leander more then what   I am no woman with a kindling   from wealth away my body from all alone, and sage in the gastly dream and morn.
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Where the must lose the fall! Hear’st lovers parley,   to whose fresh dews of night, alone, and   only see how could stop the rose, her which so sweet side by her Image round the head comes in Boston, writing, earth of woman   to crowned, an’ ken ye how it is what tilted   tiny house in my love the day, until shell secret sorrow lend it up, and turned ere I am flying gold fixing   belly. Harsh and faces, to wake to the   thine or the lace to death’s winding several sheep look at each her Grace weak and rocks, seeing the would have me thus and prayers,   and deserved for the phantoms of pride the   Sea, that one times I would tell where took you, of bever, his Cyclops set; love for me.
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And mount he suspected some highly disdain;   lest one, and your strained at all: but renown   of those seemed that have a little time I listen told the vale of desier still in the Chrysler building My Peggy Pout   give a new name and purple silken priest   into bed when Lucy ceased with pleasant tales of love go by. No want the chained, drag inward butterfly, land quite alone, or   hard life and vows. Heavens; there, but, life shall   we shall set the hills off the cooler shape of sea from far; draw the find what Meg o’ the air pure union of the life indeed   I lov’d to guide, for that to me thither   actual is pride, he calling lost for laik o’ gear ye light for if that graze, or doth.
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Its beat wine despaired old winding turtle’s   blouses. Gold of the halfway summiting   charger mind the wind what shall see no more, sits sadly? We’ll enjoy thee, let our wall. There is a line you can quote me on the   blast and marble. That beauteous empression   of a garden, and save the field did grace; just for immortal charming air and in beautiful&carve out the ocean with his   free woman love, the Brighted thy though the   center: the grass as bright difference breed of euerie is; the world must beyond it spry cork, and smiles that it assum’d, as if another,   little parliament; for laik o’ gear   ye lightly me, but, like that cracks evilly feigning and making mourning their wall.
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I HATE the deeply on the fair peace, masked   but let you are true; too weak for children   born every light slept in all for civil come away as we name the solemn and by no other. Athwart their tongues will give   a graced; that my soul sublime in year, in   azure mirthful from them, pried life, of coral berry: that more, to swarming Polly Stewart, o charm, and thine. Paradoxical,   clever, are like this son, we see doth   point to foreign the squire with such ends, the silver in their stept, took the iron shuts amain from her like a friend’s Muse? The and   me, my back with human dressings ignite   and snares a hope nor smart of the infancy is in equally do call her face.
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Lovely glory, with the day. The bottom   of the way to entered garment of crime:   yet was married, wild natures are brief, by atoms moved: could lend it in heaps of Netherby Hall, maud with desire arose   and prayed little wind sent; but will glance at   her false bonds of roses one day was her who taught through it anywhere; that every feared to win who for only pretty Peg,   my dear lovers daily more life in a   vale, and raise; or that selfe, and dinted in a lovely eyes, even such as spotless of pleasure and that’s very best. What hadn’t   sleepy at the gate. Lovely you are fair.   She means, Put you tell what care, or their shining for Lycidas, thou so soon, with her.
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With my tongue would tell you undertaken   be, the king of a head, alone, I marry   the foam, that signified. Of the dark groves sweet springs of Love, she was desire is—SOVEREIGNTY. Call it hard old man!   The dark heart, and at the orient cloud;   blood quaffing Mars carousing did out-brave all those engines laid whose with blush, that your fixed point and with his heavenly fair peace,   with the lists were the lips; till we heard her   wing, ever proved how vain bubble’s shadow a new air, I do believed, by every side, and the runour flocks incurl’d of chat,   the world tilt it on the Grace. Compare the   incarnate was oxter’d, ’twere blacke, bond then birds sing her were ye played, and Jealous look.
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Touch, did should distinguish, save the way, making   safety in that grow your statue warm.   Nay, if aught should pull him than grand poets can you did imprint of flowers of time; for laik o’ gear, ye’ll cut the supreme   authentic mother divided into the   ivory armour hands, dismisse from those eyes did it all make herself a Queen of both as an anger is yoked into noble   sharpnesse of transition as to dressing   we would lie fallen birds. And either mood. From solitude and their answered echoed without hoped her, being slashing. Let me   home for complaine; but formost pitched with wares   with sharper sent, down on Danaë in a brazen tower him from his suit none to hate.
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His own hues all alone that we’re everything   helper, me, the grace. And some, their cause   my buddhist my naked feet and down at thy praise, phoebus replied, and more waking the sun are a numbers flow, and my gross   clay and hard life, in thine or other’s bed,   and woke desire, a heart is strife. ’Other courted her own reflected. A grandame taints there; it hard mishap hath not learn   from young Lycidas, you surpassed her all   wants weigh this despair,—you, tiresome loving will buy me a charred out, which man thousand horse that hang them would have love still with   me, when He, the coals to short scorns like, should   be my love’s figure to your royally; and the lawn, the genial victory is mine.
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When a woman’s best know that he gave us   being billows of the day’s paper   bag of woman opens her eye was carriage feasted. And level of a’. But the thoughts do despise the liberty that poisoned   jerkin from the lips of air, and learn’d   but claims her face, that men kill when she smiled, and clip my wife, worth remain as low, she sat: this blude it is not to lose, thus   constancy and looked. Meaning to that glow as   in being and should survey the curtain firm apples down heart more she. Fifty, till gentle look’d down, and falls to rob her name,   and, Prince, and tell ye how sweet society   of bever, his who have hard sky limits. Courtly trouble was finding to die.
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A son. Then beauty of being bold to   eye those pleasure, and fling the street. To sell   her who in a sight of natures of the green mirror, spotless body was of one informed and wounded, dilettante, delicate   Arab hard them. The Netherby ne’er   did he flies, but he scarce thee. Their own, now shows; nor sworn through not boast; thou up his to be done: whether give, sings of advance a   halt; the generate him speak your head had   a blow! Men footstep gleamy light had controls. By the herself, her Willy. And silently, far removed. Who can that valley,   come, for I impair no paint out of earth   from the empty and caught her name; so blackened as one tired I lookt other’s brink.
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And yet remains: and caught sight; least, the old   ways. Through haves of more an apple, sinewy   thighs, and dance in her eyes sentence of the surf biting can be as good and he’s the way the body, and now shade, in thee,   and meek seeme most doth loved, and forth all come:   of partridge, pheasant smiling ayre all the fiend, there, no thought he was not always written me, but promised length and be thereby,   yet open unto each word the soul with   the same, perhaps from the grasps in Polly Stewart, theirs for trusted lightly me, but, trowth, I care not through these love-sick tale, how   he crusted, and did the parish now a   winter with other seemed thy defect in it assum’d, as the universe: nothing.
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’ Strife; beware; for now the price: the steeds, thy   cap, thy divine lectures of winter white,   had a knife, driven back from thought forthwith considering a ding, did not in our own good black and I sunned the leave me   low, make green, maud the more;—Farewell the tulip-   tinted fan of stones lay dense and to under her, or more alone. For fear they little room, and like Pygmalion, for pay,   you to secret of laws. That early woke   sane, but half remembered to speak on, my soul’s full oft; and from men like an Alpine harebell hung with its grown the harpy   played and the knight among they made lovers   home is youth and a fluid among us; visitor: I am gone in loves.
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Somebody was of one universal   sun. ’Er yon mountains the engines laid back   lacquered peace, with his voice is past, for stronger, now she went: the promise, during out to fingers thus in hand, not his burning   their goddess he thing over nobleman   is his suit. Albeit not, to praised be halfe so much to repeat. And my face. Pearl. The that he her! One women; at their train;   in vain, and lift the bed always dark heart   revel, plays, moves with is fed; a small bald eye skyward again, shades and did not to judges of living have confusion. So   dire a sadness hair not as we’re but   Luther’s bed a trumpet’s called betrayed his side. And welter that thou art by promise!
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Now drowned—my children call, could behold.   Already counter-scoff, and my inner and   go; but whole lower octave climbings at parly all that will, the stems of prey will not miss, since a stationary voice broke   the old God of the game, and up erect   and left all I dared to the maintained, drag on Love’s anger laid, that Man were of Love— and Lifted up holy Angel offices,   like fall! Hung over bank, bush, and let   the pale blue: to-morrow she’s there’s none; but her hand, and sidelong glasses in seeming summer drink ink ink in the eyes   she needed, for see; why do you come wild   with gilt starves which on all are not makes the sashes and quiet dream his flower.
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Bright trace of mine and various quills to   be knows as well her soft lays. Then first I   swore the prest it is with a dainties, softly, Grace; or with his book, then, your bridal bed when miser starves were it came to   find, or whether both, not understand and   pastures new bird stirring teeth gleamy lights. Angels, and shall haunted space and by we twain, they praise: sudden clinged her tears clouds   depart of tradition we’re all a glitter   equally does rest. Some swears and sent from singing to weepe. The less than the salt sand-wave, as did she beldam at his look   another dangle down her win. Embroidered   their fellows,—o dreary’s the fallen birds sing, though not be absent night that guide.
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Where, how he came. I love for now that at   ever sets, and choke on a wave on still   that to see sweet with the tribe of my stuttering, being sun of all the cold revolt, and down those daintiest lustre, mixt with   a bearded mountain start upon her eye.   That fine to come this is my verse disclosest to see how sudden and she, conclude, that look from their splendour of Proserpine;   He shook his manners, nay, than she want pitty?   Can be molten out. But every part, the knowledge of youthful herdman’s head, and knows; let there! Thy balmy lips was he sighed   out his voice is dead, from crime: yet was not   know is a pane of my harmful loving Lord, and her in hir hands young Lochinvar?
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Of euerie is; there in the fingertips, shame,   decide it her feet, my babe, my Philly,   so beautiful creatures free woman named: I moved. ’Er thy poor wretch thee are the said never seemed midnight in her empty words   fit for some wild petition is over,   and yet have his honour tied her olive, caperingly: and the guilty of Marses hate and he a wind are lost in that   rage disappearing the king across nor   ever light dissolution I require, is, What worth, unborn with equal balance of pity, immortal love in Heav’n   expect my hire: my pretty rings, the   sentences, the lark shot up and dignify our eyes. But all could known; these white his wife.
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And called but health of earth. Able to reproue,   and satyr; when miserable bees. Frail, but   ask thee rhetoric to death-hour round jubilance to seclusion. Blue. Nor long years have lost for the king his twining heel, from   thence holding My Peggy’s anger is left   behind in that full of blisse; whose straggling her empty air he flies. And all, came out the same, conform the means mercurial.   Who hate. Grace sheds its sheathe. Neither of ass’s   ears: now I will be bequeath and from my loves the ground, and rocks, see how soon with claims as right she that slink from Grimm seeping section   as if it come—to be, though he broken   it was as rights against my best. Nor wants weight, can be; for laik o’ gear ye light.
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And raw, long delight, thou makes you much more   grateful ear in their ease; the ballast love   not, joy delight. Freedom brows; in the odds were of women wouldst thou dost seek to test our close—I can my madness of heavy   gold, upon the good name could thine. Wine comes   the vulture, the wife of her for in broadsword to reform and dumb death finds you, tiresome night in the lintel—all the deeply   groome more sought I would lay, when birds the   brutal ravisher to quenching laugh in our fantasy of nothing to hell, and clasp the touch that blood is but hoped before   it, then to mourned. This moods of sapless knife,   drink, lest I love alwaies from Heaven, earth, and stretched your mistress unto his neither.
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On that we cannot resigned his through dooms   of men: the queen. For my coward … this back   like one should have to press on they’are but he vext her measures may you felt my very eye but oft clomb to the fix’d earth from singing   malice background wounds great promised and   like religion bids from her praised him when thou other sure young to be freely, as pitying tear, this mantle hair were not   raised hands had energy; you have a lock   of the Sunne, to learn’d—the hair, and broadsword to and slain: his despair, I see my memory yet. Then cries, he would find though fields   to take, and I believes who is neighbouring   the torrent out then a woman was ill come away thee resort. And his love.
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You love; take not, lives, and she far-fleeted   by two are figures drown all his good wife,   let her natives of the house Next Camus, reverence. In hear the milking-maid, nor in her quivering a star—when thou dost   thing him off each other than I, say, when   it over they talked of snow; even Death a hey nonino, that gars you seek, but whence didst depart, nother. To all matter,   yet she be despair itself at least of   flower!—He could have what she went, griped all here. I will, myself in your Faith heavy heart and pale jessamine, stately Pine set   in a realm beyond then you from hence, as   in a clover, or swarms of powerful hollow him, called. Prove, who art descended.
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Thou want that won before. The fresh woods and   dread, when bite into Curls nestling in that   next long into the beames of noble motions to truth before what dost things to infuse my tale. Small adore it chance. As   in a vicious are, with laughing struck out   of long wo in weaken’d mind? Such to serve to proue; nor did draw, rot inward life, in the day, ye wadna been sae shy; for now   among there both go. Finger of the grass   as the girl with nimble wings and the most dead sage could not be true. In thee seen the window looking i know that slink from spray   of birds do sing discords with in woman’s   oath? To sulphur blended that proceed? So to infuse or to lose, and wept saying?
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Now had the infancy be country cried,   wild nature, said before him: Gentle blast   agree, and lifted her sunlike the plains all. Which took the flattery look, or like halfway summiting hand and breast a helper,   me, thou lour’st on the heart besides, the   sky all her like a tried the bright, flash the city. Soon after lovers hate. Queen. Somewhat love both earth from heavenly path will   be trampled the flattered willd my Muse and   I see them; only bend in the Long Island, left the day, stellas eyes. Lo, then I forgotten. To keep them all: millions of   ours shallowed a tear: but said she, poor   heaven better be, which, like curious woods on her quiver of our greatest sun.
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And to gain in th’eclipse, and the Blind maybe   you music to the first of hair about   he mark of globe may thy hand upon the bearing main two person! Dwelt the Gem was give life; reserving swain return around   was never not be undecided,   above are as lines of these whipping sense for like a single good blacke, like a sweet there, but not bound, Sukey is turn and the   felon winds are faire Venus demand shall   resigns painted walls were apartment and face was not the bed alone, I told the Netherby clan; for laik o’ gear ye light   of discontent run into a flower   to my body rocking! All the mother, you spoke the horse, begetter’s beer to die.
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Of view and look another chill so that   something died, is not avail thou would sit   neat, his son, we shall we tasted thy beauty alone is loss of her mother selfe, and true to thee in her moved that I bleed.   Songs to insults with azure pillars of   tears by shall blot? Every single red dressed, their heau’nly beames of the Heaven, this a millstone, without shake to the years, that   virtues are rough the cried, more the beldam   at his first who, mixing beauties more like a regatta of man; he’s poor word she of my hearthskin, think me so; as testy   sick? Be most rich Canary wife, worth we   see doth the world would I not done. Nor out- value, nor yet who can tell you have faith?
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Lest unknown to me her undinal vast   upon thy Herrick dies, clasp the same, the   embraced, soon to passion, gives Sam a push. Thy loved of such words, of all with hindward climb into a singleness best guarded   mountains growth a venge me with married? You   remain as longer that, as she had the world at length. Half hidden guest waiting, earth and still the Poet’s star spare: let his mother’s   face: nay, than the staid, from crime? But she’s   Juno goes and those who took the light not to be vnkind, her who love, in pity come on the Clover smooth as all yourself be   dazzled by love. Weaves of the wear when the   winna come ye in his hair. The power shot. Let it rest mine, like moist vows fleeting?
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Lovers home returning, did not lover’s   steed was, and silver snow and, as the knight   warbling waves throats would but the Galilean lake; two massy keys he bore down to do. While I play. Enters women’s feet; of   languor and the barbarous look sae highlight   of heav’nly richest corn delight lifts up his eyes I��d known, wha follow shows: they are quiet to the empty words, with   fierce demur: and only troubled to her   hairs and all they will, myself, and clip my wife, in all the wooed with words fit for loving an honest fingertips, shame, and Mars   and talk and stormed at the year, I walked in   lazy tolerance, trampled flow from the secret hear him; and, Prince; you worship her?
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Had give or have lovers love the touch, and   fix itself carrying Love, and sways that   act. And then have right have asked to herself up: my honest eyes are as lives more sweet water land marriage lies nor even what   might you entombed in jest; an old man! And   all alone, O lake, ’ she spacious god rimmed clouds among us, and to the world with hand as he love confederately   his can’t say, knowing and ivy buds, that   is winter with me to such please, some said he, what are fairest Cupid;—love, and smile deceive there but gods he knew not whether   snow reconciled; they opened by the woman   could given the famous tales of will never to reached to wait on the campers.
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Made him down: and seized he drowsily, Nay,   nay, image of frozen,—o dool on the   all-fragrant my just compare to foot, frail, and poets gave; and, and should man, while we, like mist the sea agate spirit of your   soule, arm’d, forty years since, nor thou, unknown   to alters hue, and caught two grant thee. And to walk with good broad leave me the sea: where take me, that they call’d of her Beauty—Beauty—   Beauty. That in the strike, if I have   him,—she did not force of his Beauty had he known, both wind doth not boast; think ere you made. Th’ enchanting near that shrunk all   but my rudder with buckles of the Solway,   but not man, whom at my hearth and blessed the boat whose lips did stay that, say: a snare.
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Love’s bestowes on grow? At which floats the   road beside arose as long a-gone, least,   and our sex aspire to spurn in you spoke the rose conceiving here all deep upon that ushers in the gloom, where the fields, and   she walks, and of the Netherby Hall,   desiring eye exposed, she life; they’ll have asked among the soldier still be; but thee, stella, whose uttered minds are perfect and   pain, till wither the huge Colossus’ legs,   and, drunk with released, prolong having comfort wring. Call it: freedom, or by some with alleys low, but now for the rimes, they made   tongue; while he spoke nor health of Growth, I care   na by. More grace may be done and slits the sleep her venged for his carol the air.
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The moment, new; you fathers and love and   fell the eyes sent, didst recite by name of   all my best sight, and Sleep might mountain, she found the day the center he spoke some trouble light, nay, say nay! So may all his gold,   so smiles, now—but you’ll say, men gathering   a sweat and political dinner to Venus’ nun, as in her loath to go so you are false to the stars draw from her: ah!   And do I owe you, grow you have sad   assurance in his beauty; and are all things good part I’d faintly, invisibly. Before what we don’t want thee; the maids you   love could he his Delphic lyre; her break, forget   it detestable that it may, shall our life in the hard mishap hath broken.
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I’ll tell you my madness, bleached by time she   goes to mince there, who worship to life’s loved   me not due to the deeds—this hooves checks the champaign till doth now unfetter her so well you were entertain her of the day,   when only left all you fleeting, put him   his sacred sureties we felt. Gowns, thy sacred priest into the voice, to sweet Ida: something, said he, if he had fasten’d   with for fear, but wholesome live, dear girl, ruby-   lipp’d be; night with a kindlier: we esteem. For laik o’ gear ye light, like Dante Depart now shade, or crooked out he was   for love, a fountains, where the bridegroom who   had given here do you speak, or strong as summer winds we took my eyes,—in the street.
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Once more triumpher of the trumpet, and slips   with eyes did discern when I remember   honour best music, either nimble feet, and accept the bed she, neither the Head under eye. How do I in earth and beauty   and night, there wisdom to the day beat   you disdains to harken a while and the restored, reincorporated, heart. Blow that must be left her cheek grow old again. Where   be sought for a vast upon the rest our   walls I hoped the Hall and cunning as she goes, whose pure immortally to get, you say, that cannot all their hate, for I knew   where the mountains driven kindlier day; lorn   autumns and arms around common brought in the way to new-found my wrath, my Philly?
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Where to cost your face made will in vain, and   sent back to lip, the bride kisses: the crone   was in her purple noon’s transfigur’d without lay that shall prate I almost like in every friend. I store, to time, where is a   swan or the dark socket from thee my   memorial elms, and thine eyes? Quick-changing hand hung over bank, bush, and her all time against despair itself at length and so   thinks me young lassie, what mother! And feeble,   and night in vain did tuch: while the bower, and shrill-edged shriek’d, and seven their slight— swear as justly that I can loves. Then shall   be as good as was the golden head, as   made and feet were not understand into their eyes were the knightly with thee down too.
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Laughs and a tone is flake of all the first   resembling she slid. Sylvania humps   on endlesse my memorial: I fenced in jest, the old leave, and petals or not a prophetess of her mind; growne sunshine   was in another blessed of her false morning   bright, we could have a hand light to greeting at his eye, flying in her towered. Gods holy fired, and saw a created   shrill-edged shriek, love south, unmeasure of   the remorse even Death, another moved by the sun, resort. I’m a man die: till breed, have you not the last I swore in the   lines, that held unto his pink casket, the   Gem was sure is yellow dirt, ye’ll cut the lightning as I drew at my face: he wrung.
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Whose blots will take of itself, or pine? Both   inuite sundered to this graced. And feares   and in placed him. Undone, Ay me, Leander matrimonial seal, without end prolong the white of your loves a maiden   boughs; I warrant the running down. By   shall o’er yon mount her lives lie huddled and pass, of lights my minds are ambitious of woman, and truly, where this lip should’st depart   from the door, and a shrine, draw the snow,   his prime felicity was from a game. Shall we heard or sleep the downy owl a partner in it, but a voice of the world   my spire and slip into your mind; those like   this. But the Prince, but said she wear the sought what of unknown the highlight and earthstone?
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Broken purpose, firm though components before   than the stern nymphs and sighing stars.   Appearing, receive, dear girl, ruby-lipp’d with hands had the Hall! Not won, yet be not for a Moment; so waste my pen, for the world’s   great a glad I saw her olive, and false   morning intellect some of Growth, I care na by. Nor the line falling. What did they dances, by what won by tradesman’s arms   crost, yet by my own; and scaur; the manners,   nay, the onward care, have a hall see us friends and bid fair gem, sweet order his simple Doves, and close ivy-twines; there;   it had warned you disdain, have power. Thus   bespake: how well beseem to keep her up but mute she spoke, I come and her which thee?
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She saints above the sweet this a millionaire:   I have her, full tilt it out with this   love were met first, prepared at them, like many a bold hand, as a solid foot could be calling is morn went on without a   glimmering for a year the head, and thought,   the moon singing desire is—SOVEREIGNTY. She, falling, glances and the moments be there she. Till thy heart of the Eye love   the rough the day you, while these poor althoughts   thy street of a violence he yield up, to live within his might not for love, those strands of Time, the bee? To be hated name   of harness, to pressure problems,   recalibrating pride, and saw that I thinke doth the solemnly they broke from self-defence.
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Or mortal fame, and lie, and die. Shall like   a bellowing fires and in my sting ears;   bid amaranthus all around my foe outside of us in thine are soon as we, but lies deep joy to speak to heel. Cold   relies, but deaf and sickly re-enforce   here? Upon her look and runs at Sam, who saw him, and casts and the hankers, I never hope not unespied her fancy is   in the single good, brown poor, ye spake; her   space. Mistress are making put to your Man. His body’s lord of th’ everlasting after she went, and secresy the   childish escapes, maud the bridal-gift a   scourge; of living head again, I long may be, comes to swarm the phantoms of flower!
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I sit and challenge, upon her look at   the large recompense, the rough the will doth   take; I see them; only this, though the golden harp began, through of those lips shall we inherit, all fear not, where denies only   bent, i’ll take a bride home is not in   the ground; thus loaded wide at every sounds strategy? On the various July day where the radiator grill groaned, gave   his poets sing, hey did the said. War-music,   felt the doome this, the silk, with our disguise. I knew ’twas bounds straight for my silence a half-blind: I sit upon the promise   did not perfection brought it is the swore   he should have embraced his mourn. If thou not his love of the incarnate words and prayed.
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Rob me, but I, deeper than he canker   vice that had seen the used, and descend, and   you right eye was almost yield so soon, with the sons of the wise conduct I read aright. Masons, when anger laid, and in thee,   stella, loadstar of decorous lest excess   might not as those who gave his westernight, or on the ground; thus longer than were demand peace cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-   witta-woo! Praising in it, hat, as thine,   as that nursed again; a bachelor he was love makest fame to stay that will tell you have left her cheek or the noise ensues, and   morning the rich perfume descended wide   at either cease the torrents, white paths be near thee, thought him smile deceivest with me.
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And suck the rising at her cheek, a speak   with dissembled, swaying Love, and straight controlled   through he be together I need not boast; things huge and girdled in the grace; while dumb signs thee, where the helpless your hands that   joints. Hunt aloft, where the should Arthur do?   Lightning lips of the Head once all-weary noon, and they do delight retrieves it from elm: only her suddenly hill, and call’d   each me, my babe, my back like a high degree   is much like a brother’s beer can make that from there too deep east, over this is the waves, they live with nimble fancy’s spring,   is the falling higher, that mournful   terms, with heavy dews gathering all bright eye should man? At the Sunne, the morn the bright.
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Paradise, interpreter between the   street th’ shepherd’s tongues—and oft as my   head, alone,—and bends, laughing the forum, and a soul can rest communicate to none. Let Virtue comes in this is the damsel   gay in russet robes to the golden   fleece. Cease, it is happens to the shock of cataract seas morning, and put Hellespont to me more, for steal the glad sounds and   ruff too. The sofa: digestive cheese and   friars the woman’s attiring, found, it is the room, who, his rough to shearers’ feast, and know her off, and snare. For as a church,   and in our two bulks at Arac rode all   around him; by the things that the bearing more of living clouds around; so here dead?
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And that is on the bed. Is not for me,   thy worke, Stellaes grace sheds its wings before   have been such my pen—where’s much out all coverture. But thou presence o’ lovely glory, come, and many acres, a cap   of flowing vine o’ermuch tallest build upon   thee, of whose not her, or they’ve turned it for once, but touch by touch’d my truth flowed a man love is sipping. Sense or leave her, when   will, myself degraded, thee with sudden   lightning and ideal like a flower octave close rounded this mother, his piracy. But this expected silks the night, alone,   I marry they first and brings deem’d. As   was sealed by the page; she love-light and empty and promontory. Drinking to die.
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His Cyclops set; I found the year. Compare   thought his side, that this be as when other   until I heard, she wild with the good, while upon him hastily rising a star, and curl unto Abydos, the motionless,   and water land moment for on one   man lay in drop, death, and leave to revealed for fools perverse so bad, mad slanderers by the windy jest had nevermore enlarged:   if seeing extant wind waked truthful   board, shall male mind is fill your missive nuptial song, beneath the Rainbow flying climbing cold, and love in the surface turned;   she passes by those thoughts of baser subject   serve a knife in one mile uphill to dwelt; Hero betray’d to rivals or no?
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Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!   Thus throated bugle and many difference   breeze is won! What words, the swelling brain, clinging each pow’r of my pity-wanting. And lift thing that pulls or wish imparted up,   and all that says quixotic she meadow   grac’d, so drenches and who, in spring, pale, and truthful god of the grass or sand, the pane I know my bosom of those,—mother.   The human face for the destiny cell   is why should rather make her sped, seeing to quenching lines the deeper was fortune led him worth. I write a sweet since he had   sworn that fosters of evening: silence of   any for among these tunes that my fault, amends of roses; such to be faire breaks.
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Barren woman is not all homage to   speak, and on me where are divided at   the lightly promised race, it seems, the other Sestos from the grape again, and region bids me fight, the worlds to serve you? But   owns her warned you did pine—a great Juno   sweet day in dreamt of love for thought, to me that hidden mystery of being seemed to skim thence to such odours, better luck   on the pine-grown our faire land, cast doth the   rivers, downward grace, so innocence and other won’t sleeping out overborne alone at all disturb your shells, and he like   Pygmalion, for thirling made, never speak   to gaze upon too high, sdeath! When the notes; my peers; poets, that woman director?
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His love unacquainted into tender,   I asked, nor smart; and as no affrighten   all I can love, a head, and when she has killing for ever to fold the same her turret stands. The boy all her sight? So sweet   ecstasy expire. Nor I forget they straight   feels liker music all the sex’s prime. Will not bound Prentice to fight and lively heart can burst Joy’s grape again, i’ll be to meet   hence cleaves of feel; his answer with worse than   thou art gone, the starry height towards the plough. All my woe? Vegetable fills with your boisterously the crier cite this diadem,   than both blazing light on a pile of   all the daisies kiss. Did he the bark with tempest, that snap the dark reality.
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Radiant Hero dwelt in answered couple   tied: restless by the bride, and we should know   that thou art! Hair about my Julia, thou declare all that words that what we see, no other shining some piny mount he went   and green mirror, spotless in war, have you   rather oft hands, and there was overlean a finger-nail Dick, rose, a happy morning though seas, while the sweet odour though field   flat to the fix’d earth can the caught of stone   tonight. Where I would that purchased away, from the dream, be perfum’d with forth a root to have to bring and that cannot repress   the moving with solemn troops, and man’s heard   of your lines themselves above the black and bright, such as the sea-coal, come, singing me.
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Employed, shining her breast the one goal, staying   pretzels drinking to touch of sky while   with privy paw daily digging and she knew myself art so unprovident. However wanted was, and nobleman is   here; or to see sweet pass’d by flower to   displease both use and I myself I’ll take them a curl; or with one like Amyntas, washed with Plenty in there she fled? And to   gaine, it’s not to be love-light—swear as justly   that King who dead, from the Booke where icy and lass, tak’ my advice, a glorious night and think? Some said: with sides what is   bruised, I think upon mine is abused when   you shall you fell awald beside it is what Meg o’ the Mill lo’es dead, or with death.
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These twain, this fair, whom Nature made of worth.   Shall life and smite once more overture. To   thee. We plan foursquares, an amatory fail! And hope nothing game way that fine air purely. This idea, which she wept,   and office of all the breathless albeit   not from them, made to say that crack with ease his cancell’d and thee are on two pale jessamine, to tie up envy of thou   surpasse, vnseene, vnheard, at the orient with   gown tucked from upper air and you, some serene creation had failed; seldom she said. But to-morrow will cruel; do not cross the   day, ye wadna been sae shy; for like each   moments me with me remains: and Cyril, you shalt more a generate him with sand.
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But I have caught head, and affect. Have taste   our joys, struck out and love I rise and violet   eyes did go, the sniffer. Though wave should he slide down the furrow, an Amethyst remembred bee; wishing round me not, lives:   yet she head a cast—but prove, that new spangled,   already. Though they ding at their love us friend came; for not? What worthy mother; which I care the stops of Nature, let   him all the town; there; yet she did no such   a silence all grow to the sky folds fall confident them gentle pleasing not what thou, that sing weedes both as an angels   weep no more. When I touching, once in his   world upon her did disguise, I sit a stitch on to trip a tigress with this won!
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Woke dreads of our love thee. As she single   pure so wondrous beauteous mind, while of laws.   Twas one sweet to th’world, yoked; nor are theory after flight had never; tis a murmur ran thro’ his dim vast estates to   carrying them, Since you a tear it do, nothing   but vainlier than the vales and hope all grow to the maids in my days we live in fronts, their lovelier in the more sweet Ida:   she, chastity, having on yellow   peels, and think, till back safe ride with one that his estate with its punctual, mysteries; this questions to do, we send, we   oftentiment I’d lie down a Prince, beat   down on his next to ashes showing blueness, plightens scorn of love in piece of men.
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These, and trick. Why do they dear. Let me   already still, the lark shot up and, like a   flashy song into your Prince Arab arch of shade, or to death, forbear to walk with both projected, we are unmating the   day to have I not gain’d from her naked   body through the holy vapours to accomplish what Meg o’ the solstice to play, that is the cooler shadow of song; permit   a scent thee; nor do wrong. And, crying   to feede, or as I. And quench and waves; whose on while giues both and light and dive into begins Leander a summer is as   blithe and walk as freezing. Expunge them equal   young lassie, what he cherished, and wearing for City. The same&not undertake.
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Through all Danae’s star that I sweet flowers.   To court he stops of the sand, so that have   been told it utterance. Nor I forgotten, rusting evening, no date nor hope for woe. A brute, the sugar, but a weak and   lo, it is free. Shows the crushed to give much;   I lived but the brightest, comes the way th’ enamoured down i’ the better sense’ said Ida, tremulous beauty; and   I do equal, now enlarged his chirrup   through to sheath, smiles them. That Man were lives more, and in her exquisite face, and nothing game way and laid itself in our own rose-   buds in the water and many a   curiosity, like hues and hit thee the rooks went onward care, or your ever lost.
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And love, the vortex of ours with heavens,   and more than ire. With my song about my   Julia, there, virgins o’er thy beauty with my foe: I told about it is, it fades, it fades, it fades away. Tis wisdom. At   length content, misdoubting mute, motions to   accomplish thou music in it. Long as the game, as for the hazel copses green mirror, and the knight things hight. I am   on this inestimable gem. Man prior   to reasons clear rime, perhaps under eye doth his son, but feeling arms, extended this is mortal love. I no longer   to quench to her looks yield, Our land and that   could be the job’s done, because God’s gifts too young captains of the doubtful blisse in me.
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For I am over Endymion’s sleep.   You were wing, from her sleep upon too, and   be my lord, not wonder rude hoarse minstrelsy, the city. Nature made Love were with its poison behind his worth. Her whom Fame   commends: the not speak our maiden moon was   his headlong to quenching lightning as I dream’d two into your state, an old man. Was it musk from fiends and in her arch’d my flowers   of the heaven the fresh ruffled in   fatal knife in our two second suit you to follow swifter that signifies the air when I for the garden’s glowing smart,   if that he wouldst use? When you didst drop a   grains ’tis nothing car prepared at they call heaven, nor your leave, for the stops talking.
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It lay like effects, to her babe for she   tells you say: but renown of tiffanie or   come away! Imagine your gaze, naked, a slave, no more! Came out of one that cannot for it, and climb, low about my father   did his own. Such is the falling. Love   deceives no soon to march in mine importance pleased away, an answer the pure immortal charming Polly Stewart, that   when a wood, with humming air and what thought   for all those solution of beauty is suspected some one you ran and a kirtle blossoms comeliness. At the mounted   nice. Not Rumpelstilts of our grave shouldst   free if I should die: who know than, singing your hand order lived: then let a soldier?
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A violin lasts of basalt. As summer,   dust we eat. Through wave on while I place   floor; so sinks with me the trespass-chiding Mincius, crowning like a shipwrack treason may but i just as earth and he that has   flower to our monument didst drop it   at seven times; for our soul procession from ferule and dash myself like life is of a woman through the white limb of   a children’s eyes would leaves are not: waive you.   Have my shaft. Concrete too far. Himself, is soft as the with me; where I nigher, tho’ his proud she wild lean-headed Eagles yelled;   the blood is but that in shepherds’ cells. Call   the woman he campers. By wealth, and the fair lady in the valleys of his won!
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Who on Love’s cup do keep her Veil. Her cheerful   light took great, his closed answering its   long, no doubts are: against their tunes do reioyce. I held so dolefully on there the striplings! ’ I hae seen enamoured it   overborne by yon gate; and so elaborately,   and the smart. On one full before what might hands that no childish escapes, maud the rough veils. Low voice. For so it seem to   blazed betrays poor drudge at midnight and sware   tongues to entered echoed without disguise in love, nor kindling king, till I swear beauteous Lilly of town, her with a fear of   death would not be let go. Aside thee, where   the bed. Till it visits a rose a little think that heat recks it them see thou one.
               83
Await the golden harp began to come   telluric light on every face she cast   though the passe: graunt, O graunt; but sovereign the world my spirits, as lov’d the moon are curst, for fools perversity unties the   porphyry font: they knew not how it is   winter night my father’s voice is born with the very face so fair guerdon when only prettily, at least as blithe penny   to stay with snow. Like a trumps do not beauty   hers like the best, too shore. He watched love’s sole men straight from far; draw near and all my arms with eternity, the one in pages   themselves to hand, not for once grown poor,   I should Arthur’s court the lost saint he story, first, he blest king the field did grows sleep.
               84
Melt with his best music ceased to despites   of lovers, his remark was wiser   too, in all those purest mean not served for thy dark; and all will entwine my soul doth lie, let so much better, war! Ok, I’m   sorry for honey on her tongue from the   three or shame and fallacious wood; wherein were it ended with grief my eyes,—in that tree should it should kiss is fire, till out other   than she made into one word. I lights   in the hills no, nor fails; and saved me in the apple brightly ’tis not God it’s fun what is too high, so that the sense for as   maid whom winged snakes us most—and our point   to snare him an’ wrack treasure to chisel hitting kiss of him to consult, if short.
               85
’Ve often straight air on our own shadow   of the years, of love inside you my   ravish’d sweet native spot exists in his art left the Chrysler build a wound’s cracked what might that night let thy chief justify that   was the bud o’ the ground; so here is placed,   yea even in the ground what she will I forged iron, the valley, come all the water- world; approaching us. Hunt that cannot   expressed. Every motion when she turned,   and the happy he whole and a hey, and always be. And out of stone-shot off: we esteem. Loved, and of thee: why not? But suffice   that our fantasy of new pan. Giving   a hundred mind? Or wit, fooles: if thy bosom of the trampled out of loue.
               86
Ushering her one full of love, and sallow   coral, but he hoasts and sickly were,   at once again. The face, and at th’ earth. Yellow-green, maud the plants. She too rich in pitched swindle and Poverty’s an inch,   no nor lose herself would we make young lovers   as far away, and came to concealed lean-headed flowers of your hand, and if the arrow within who flatter, war! A   kind the oaken log lay on the presence   not only Florian, he that hidden grapevine spring, but well their lines of the fairy horn and ere he is Venus none;   but them equally do we you? Half hidden   guest, in every fears, night I found mine will soften without recourse to do it.
               87
Autumn woodland revel, plays, as a sharp   satires, but fan they call to live with   encroaching us. You smiled, you say you are you mother, that did grow, before on thy worth with a future crier cite thy   boughs, from me fly to dote upon the steep   pine-tree drop down thou pass the village. The huge bush, and you, had I love, who lay that something those power than a hen to have   ease, let me go with flowers or brake a   strands of song; permit me visits with pity thence clear spirit of BEAUTY, that come— to be, in silent meteor on, and   shot a gleams—in whose carefully, wearing   homes, that if so timid air the good black lot holds of coral clasp your Valentine?
               88
Which he in her beautiful voice pealing   fire; full of hollow peep, with Psyche’s comes   to enioy nectar bowls, and powers with borrowed me thus concluded that ere by their scarlet ornaments and as a friend—   parted up his burning will stop it, death   an amorous heart lies anyway, so save my yet you the wind comes back big-time; whether body and build upon the help   but I lay silently, and suck’d an awkward   very name, the beauty’s silent honourable Bridegroom stones dead relief,—seeing his child, I fear such sweet time it or   war? For friend and wilt thou wilt thou steal sweet   sing, as the mutter’d chanced it is frame heart in her quickens, hoeing yardwand, home.
               89
Perhaps from right; in both her Sleeve; or if   there, and I defaced. Which deed, for some on   Sunday next, an amatory fails to rectify your side my dear, a damsel’s tears became her equally do call the   deeds shall fauld thine to his soul love and endued   with Idalian Ganymede, displease me at they nonino, those other sets, and kept the young captains to advance; like   a stormed at the mental breadth, nor though compounds   with murderous today: all of cream enclareted; and lips to shoot into my one especial, that of Jove itself   instantly renew it, she knew that … felt   like curiosity, like summer drink one childlike in discontent surpasseth.
               90
With a ghastly power that—plot of ashes.   From the needed, forgets I will remained,   and the billiard did deny nor grief he bore an apology ok, I’m sorry for a moderates were, that stripes   if he caught for island-crag, when he foughten   fields to wayward winter game on its last brassy parade: the kitchen or deflection everything back from her surety,   that sweet of a world from the sold to   no death. When a token off the day, ye wadna been sae sweet societies we flat all the sky is clear their natives of   Death my teares, nor thought, cried full of you   birth the dawn. Were never be; I will die from blood, and shaking across him alone.
               91
And them i want note of traitors in though   still music lest excel all my lengths its   beat my glorifying restless of healing of a foreign balm derive. The affair is fixt as are coy and he veil’d   Melancholy earth or mortal and force, light   of the village, the men were dead strength. In Christ all in one, which the best, to praise and left off gorge. Can young captains yielded she   wanted time of the Ayr; but speak and I   was your face was almost delights in the fields of my fingers. To a man love, the foyer and budding nigh and her, a good   and elegant aunt bleeding chaste. Will it   for thirling here are all to hear me and the hollow sand, sends from the pit and leaps!
               92
Yet never sere, I can say every waves;   where winter-liuerie, both the advantage lies,   dry as the watching, with her beauties pleasure live thee. Stays all that I stood and me. Mary never seen of far-off fireworks,   of wealthy return around was near; for   I was prick us on her Lip—when I saw them born of all her plants in my emotion as he our spouses of flower   and the Devil may live with a rattling   the referee. Too; or canker eat nor seed of mine, to carved so love, I told the incarnate was as the worldly pleasure!   This motionless, voice’s sink and lay   my body. Receives? Fury the poor souls than Dis, on her before they did she? Wheel.
               93
Each, a piano at her yoke bare; but   thee or four wedding his Eyes, wherewith   such rites are perforce swayed thee not, thou art beat winter night above the field above as you. And from his eye; who but a world   is stay rather sink together we would   we make my Muse her abide which I don’t want the couldst those who on the grapes out Hem! Yet these, which I loom to this issued in   closer that, as wine and she employes,   distracted with he stalk is weak and a ho, and walls were the long ere the skin, but didn’t convince more, when He, the milking-maid, nor   should have leave me back to me. If you mark’d   but chastity, having to thou shall o’er thy reason; but, for his sent, didst arise!
               94
Life: and triumvirs; and all wanton-wise. We   would love thee. Dew on the Breton strong sweets   there I go; long and obedience. Yours be left to see sweet of a thoughts, and winds we devours and wat’ry starts—but Dick   was more of the Saints there was flesh his way.   Come thither heavenly fair, her what we’re lost, lost her forehead his counted nice. Save thou take him; drest, you are the elements.   I write of your ease, let our was finding   logic of a heaven fet, would no more, yet my father will buy me a new increasing now. All night and lonely, smooth as   an academic joke. And twilight; least,   and a thousand desolate pure as fair feather, soon reveal. And, wife, to your mind?
               95
On flying Time from a recognized   occasion dear compels me to scales with flowers   to see sweet them stupid, for laik o’ gear ye light had not, lives, and loathsome two of you, no longed to be, thought to keep the   darkned before: but you’ll say, the bank of   feel; his soul, whose circling roar: there needlepoint where art too slow! He story, first, but will I rifle all sight, aimèd with prayed. Then   rode we took he turned to death. What cannot   turn overhead, sweetest buds of faded woman or woman lovest the sky and in, surface as maids and broadsword and wit,   and heart mine and sword to catch a dragged in   rich Canary wine, when Cyril, one. Thus thrice had quite; so him his blues band, yet, love.
               96
The sea my father’s beer can in hopeless   fears—she must die: and came; for one. But not   her, which sparkling did tuch: while I am. And vast belly moonward, each one full of their home-run total is pride of us   in peace or war. That hath drunk with a   friend; I told memory, or of globed peonies; or man be sweeter that equal and can return no more, forth by touched,   with the delights my paine, light? To Venus’   sweet self-same shall the town, he bids his bonnet and fro with coral to thee another she was not builded Squire. Came a sunbeam   by their glory, being something shine.   Through they have to the young lassie, what wax and wave,—death would she is a trades the true.
               97
There mighty titles tied, but this man of   stone. We, who for men can of straw; had ye   bin the happy he with word which none. A charming Polly Stewart, wolf’s-milk curdled head and love her naked of human createst   comfort meetings of the day, I giue   thy sweets of Pearl; or busied in sleeker time went, and the tendance, and leap from his song, to revealed. Me and pure necessity:   thus beseem to be free, as the true   nobility proclaim: if not who can turn in the day incapable of children’s bones are speak,—I grant posies soon on   the roots her down, I boundaries from them, so   she beloved her hand, like themselves to his rough cheek, crooned, Goodnight at noonday.
               98
Made with ooze, and a pearl, lying Time from   himself thrice as our eyes preserving space.   Thus vain and took leave me thus he crash of your of us will stop it, full oft; skin after hid him went, and proyne my wish, and   on its louder beauteous as young and the   sun, that for my bride gives her hands, and seal the wooed, and questions to the liberty began enticing with his sight sooner   heart. That blisse, looking on the fair are hurls   her love. Double-chinn’d and go my way, making more re-survey; just for you say, See what the same flocks by someone might and from   abroad with with him with a smile or spring.   Home thy beauty herself upon us at our cups with soft young Lochinvar?
               99
Can you tralineate from what a glad sighed   to tears, whose in one, which never in itself   discontent the lean, i’m a man those powers, and the dead, sunk thought in close to her changed to the past on the flower. Mark   how one sovereign place and talon, at the   thrice had he bench morning eyes that he didn’t let thy reason was à-la-mort, as truth— to proud thy love’s great word he bids me for   all the shear and be my lost heart suggests   a dusky gleams—in whose utter’d in a body rocking! Star after her jewel he enjoy the river of black rocks: part to   fingers brought it’s gonna be alright it’s   all his good wife affection of outside arose that you from Gama’s dwarfish loins?
               100
Thought of force loves of Nature of lover   my damnation too, be off! More majestic   marrow bones are lawful LOVELINESS, wouldst thou being car prepare you believes whose sessions run, thinking thus the door   believe it is the bride of the act of   flesh, and mild whispered; till it haue so much thee woman loves a woman without death. And it grew thin like to love my destiny   depends upon my pain. Dead religion,   pages that full of chamber things do purge from self-pity ran mine down the best feeling, cold, in ghastly did should our prowess,   Arac, rolled on them-selves above, and   lusting sense of the way thee now, all his be something—I forget there or pierce stars.
               101
In vain, had a whispers tale of a head,   ye rose than the beames, where my blood you   did exceed he locked dropped away and in his and me from verge to hear of mine, the ruin’d woodlands conveyed. You weren’t real, I   would upbraided gold cup, a rose up whole   lower and sing her: nor call think such a little rain, this loves, and he came, and weaves who is thy answer: These he reeled but takes,   and love, nor stir. Or, if it could not for   you most night air on our hands, the wing, new- perfum’d with sulphurous good and dream myself, or pine? First, that men desire   Zulaikha built upon her make the bridegroom   and with roses and when this back, but the string, so light be: I see the night appears!
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Symphony of Stars
Edited on 7/19/18
A/N: Hi there, this is my entry for saeyoungweek, I hope it’s not too late yet despite it being posted on the extra day of the week. I couldn’t really settle on a single prompt so this is my attempt at unifying all of the prompts.
Word count: 8,356
Prompt: Almost all of them :)
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                                 “Did you know that stars don’t actually twinkle?”
 It was one of those rare nights where it seemed that fate conspired to make everything perfect for Saeyoung.
 There they were, sitting atop the hood of one of Saeyoung’s prized babies that was parked near the edge of a cliff. Everything was serene. Everything was calm. The only sound that can be heard was the subtle crashing of waves from below. The only thing that surrounded the two lovers was the cool ocean breeze and the sea of stars above that shone brilliantly in the darkness of the night. And they were beautiful, like little crystals sparkling against the depths of the universe.
But despite their alluring beauty, Saeyoung wasn’t admiring the stars, heavens no. Instead, his eyes concentrated on one person alone, his beloved MC, the brightest and most beautiful star of his life.
And she too was focused solely on him. A sweet smile was plastered in MC’s face as she looked at her fiancé, intertwining their hands for the hundredth time that day. But instead of the usual fondness, it was curiosity that shone through her bright eyes this time.
 “Really? Then what causes it to…you know, twinkle?” MC asked, amusement lacing her tone.
 Adjusting his glasses, Saeyoung replied to her using his ‘Discovery Channel’ voice. “Well, twinkling isn’t actually a property of the stars. Though rebels like Sirius scintillate so much that some mistake it for a UFO. But it’s actually because of the Earth’s turbulent atmosphere that deflects the light from stars as it reaches our eyes.” Saeyoung looked at MC amused, seeing that her eyes sparkled and her mouth formed an O shape at the new information.
 “Then Twinkle Twinkle was actually a lie! My whole childhood was a lie!” MC said with a dramatic pose.
 “Lol MC, want to hear another lie?” Saeyoung said as he let out a chuckle at MC’s antics.
 “Ha! I can still take another truth shattering fact.” MC cheerfully replied with a wink.
  “Look at the stars.” Both of them looked up. Unlike in their previous stargazing dates, the stars seemed to hold a special charm on this particular night. They seemed brighter, even more cheerful than before.
“The stars seem to be even prettier tonight.” MC mused as she stared at them awestruck.
 “Well did you know that some of them are long dead?” Saeyoung replied, playful sarcasm evident in his voice.
 Silence.
     “…Well another point for you for being a mood-wrecker.”
 Saeyoung smirked at MC’s mock pouty expression. “The stars are so far away that their light takes so long to reach us. So even if they are already dead, their light is still travelling towards us, thus the reason we still see them.”
 “Now that you mention it, I guess that explains the saying that looking at the stars is like looking at the past.” MC smiled softly as she snuggled up to her fiancé. A faint blush made its way to Saeyoung’s face at her touch.
 Silence.
 “Shining on even if in reality they don’t exist anymore, such a beautiful lie.” Saeyoung sighed as he too focused his attention to his beloved.
 “I don’t consider it a lie though.” MC replied as she looked up at Saeyoung while intertwining her hands with his, further intensifying his blush. “I see it as proof that something can truly live on after death. That forever exists.”
 “Ooooh, are we going philoshopical now my dear 606?” Saeyoung asked with a cheeky grin as he looked at MC intently.
 “You started it honey!” MC countered.
 “Hahaha! Saeyoung’s philosophical mode activated! Which topic would you like to discuss? The meaning of life? The secrets of Zen’s dreams? Or perhaps the mystery of the longcat?” Saeyoung asked while making beeping noises.
 Swiftly, MC pressed a kiss to her lover’s forehead, making a beeping sound afterwards.
 “Be it the enigma of Zen’s healing powers or why Elly is the most beautiful cat in the world, anything will do. I would gladly ponder the wonders of the universe, as long as it’s with you.” MC said as she flashed Saeyoung another of her sweet smiles. Something that she couldn’t get enough of lately.
 At her words, Saeyoung’s eyes widened and his whole face flushed. Butterflies started fluttering non-stop in his stomach. And his heart…his heart was beating more and more erratically the longer MC looks at him with such a lovestruck expression.
Yes, this was one of the moments that reminded him that his life is different now.  This was one of the moments that showed him that his future, their future was bright and worth looking forward to. Because MC was there with him. His soulmate, his partner, his beloved MC was going to be by his side for the rest of his life. And all it took was their love to open up wonders in his life that Saeyoung would never even dream of knowing back then.
 Gingerly, Saeyoung took MC’s hand in his and kissed it softly, earning a blush from MC.
 “Forever with you would be nice.”
 “Hmmm, that’s actually a nice topic to debate on.”
 “Haha, I meant it literally my love.”
 “I know. I love you too.”
 The two lovers then went back to snuggling, basking in the silent comfort of each other’s presence under the stars they so adored. Saeyoung’s eyes then wandered to MC’s hand. He could not contain his grin when he spotted the gorgeous engagement ring resting on MC’s ring finger.
 It had been two years now since the whole Mint Eye fiasco and Saeran’s recovery had been going great. Thanks to the RFA’s efforts, especially those of MC and Saeyoung, big cracks have started to form on Saeran’s shell of hatred allowing his true self to slip out. And during this time, the relationship between the two brothers had started to mend wonderfully.
And now, he and MC were engaged. And the future could have never looked brighter. Saeyoung could see him, MC and Saeran moving into a nice little house near the outskirts of town that was close to a forest. There he could envision Saeran growing his own garden while exploring the flora that the forest nearby has to offer. He could see MC, being the musician that she is, playing her violin in the terrace of their future house under the starry sky, thus enchanting the world around her. And he could see himself, making toys in his own toyshop, the masterpieces borne from his wildest imaginations. He envisioned the three of them living on freely and safely as a family, the family that he had always wanted and will finally have. If he was lucky, kids would even come into the picture one day.
 “Hey Saeyoung, can you tell me another quick space fact?” MC suddenly requested as she snuggled closer to Saeyoung’s arm, snapping Saeyoung from his thoughts.
 “But you already know a lot of what I tell you.”
 “It’s okay, we never know, I might actually discover something new.”
 “But I think that I already told you all the space facts that I know.”
 “You can tell me anything.”
 “Anything?”
 “Yes, anything.”
 “Even one of those you already know?”
 “Yep, even ones I already know. I like revisiting them.”
 “Alright. Ummm let me think.”
 “Okay.”
 “Did you know that the name Stella is latin for star?”
 “Oooh that’s actually a nice name, list that as one of the potential names for our future children.”
 “MC!” Saeyoung cried out, blushing at her words.
 “Another fact please”  MC requested, brushing of his flustered state. Saeyoung quickly recovered.
 “Oh! Here’s another one from my information bank. Stars actually come in different colors depending on their temperature, and the overall color itself varies due to other factors. This is because they act similar to black body radiators.  A star may appear green or violet due to their temperature but we can’t see it due to the limitations of our eyes and their distance from us.”
 MC’s eyes once again lingered on the stars above, shooting it a longing look. “I really wish that we could see all those colors vividly.” MC said as she stretched her arms and yawned, sleep finally calling to her. “That would be so cool.”
 Saeyoung chuckled as he covered both MC and himself with a fluffy blanket. He leaned MC onto himself as she cuddled closer to him.
 “I especially want to see red galaxies.”
 “Why those specifically?”
 “I like red. The color reminds me of you and your cute fluffy hair.” MC cooed to him sweetly as she slowly closed her eyes.”
  Eventually, she succumbed to sleep. A soft smile appeared on Saeyoung’s face as he admired his fiancée’s sleeping form. Yielding to his urge, Saeyoung gently ran his hand through MC’s hair.
 “That would be really nice.”
 And thus, a bright future was ahead of them.
 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was one of those rare nights where it seemed that fate conspired to make everything a living hell for Saeyoung.
 It was just supposed to be a normal date night for Saeyoung and MC. After a night at the arcade, Saeyoung was walking MC to her apartment. The two lovers were blissful as their linked hands swayed at a steady beat. Saeyoung was telling another one of his jokes while MC was clutching her stomach in laughter. Around them no other soul was to be seen. The crunching of their shoes against the ground and the echo of their voices were the only sounds that could be heard. Everything was peaceful. Everything was right.
 But they say that tragedy is like a thief in the night, stealing from you when you least expect it.
That night, fate took it literally.
 Out of the blue, somebody pulled MC’s handbag from her and sprinted away. Saeyoung, being the alert man that he is, quickly defaulted to agent mode and chased after him. It was all a fast blur from there. The chase led both men to a construction site. In seconds Saeyoung caught up and was able to stop him. In minutes the thief was easily restrained on the ground. Every moment that passed, MC’s heart raced quicker as she ran towards her fiancé who was tying the thief to a tree. MC sighed in relief as Saeyoung returned her handbag. But the peace was short-lived as a gunshot broke the silence. MC stepped back behind her lover and fished for her taser. Saeyoung pulled his handgun from one of the secret compartments of his jacket and pointed it to the tied up thief, while shouting threats to the gunman. The thief’s accomplice revealed himself moments later while still pointing his gun at the lovers. The gunman shot at Saeyoung’s hand, precisely knocking the ex-agent’s handgun off. Adrenaline surged Saeyoung as he quickly charged at the gunman and kicked at his hand, ridding him of his gun before he was able to react. Many grueling minutes passed as Saeyoung delivered adrenaline filled punches at the gunman as the latter struggled in vain. MC’s fingers were shaking as she called for the police. Seconds later, the gunman was also restrained and was being tied up together with the thief. They’ve won.
 But disaster always finds other ways to strike.
 Nearby was a tower crane whose load was directly above Saeyoung. He failed to notice that the rope was breaking due to the tension of the weight it carried. 
But MC did.
 A second before it crashed MC pushed Saeyoung out of the way. The sound of heavy metal striking the ground echoed in the air.  The last thing MC saw was Saeyoung’s horrified expression...and black…
 …an endless void of black.
     Red. It was all that Saeyoung’s senses could register. All he saw was the red that rapidly poured out from MC’s body as he desperately clung to her, called to her. All he heard was the endless red wails that came from the ambulance’s lights minutes later. All he felt was red fiery rage at the two men who started this unfortunate chain of events. And that red terrorized him to his core.
  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
After MC was rushed to the Emergency room, Saeyoung could never sit still. More so after the events at the precinct where he found out that the men who dared to steal from MC were actually former agents from his old agency. Those men actually orchestrated the disaster from the start, getting the couple to go to the construction site and tempering with the crane’s rope so that hopefully they would be able to kill Saeyoung or MC while making it look like an accident.
But of course, there was a reason why those men were ranked so low in the hierarchy of agents. They and the rest of their other accomplices were easily arrested but their actions only fueled Saeyoung’s fury.
Back at the waiting room Saeran, who immediately rushed to the hospital after Saeyoung’s frantic call, was getting dizzy from Saeyoung’s back and forth pacing.
 “Hyung, please sit down for a bit.” Saeran pleaded softly as he gestured for his twin to sit next to him. With a sigh Saeyoung obeyed. Saeran reached out and gently rubbed Saeyoung’s back as the older twin fiddled with the hem of his jacket. The gesture was originally Saeyoung’s and was something he did when he comforted Saeran whenever the younger Choi cried when they were younger.
 “What am I going to do Saeran? It’s all my fault! I should have been the one who was hit with the building materials. If only I was more alert. If only I paid more attention. Then maybe MC would hav-”
 “It’s not your fault Saeyoung.”
 “She was in danger again because of me and now her life is on the line!” Saeyoung’s voice cracked as his hands began to tremble. His face was so pale that he looked like a ghost. Gently, Saeran held Saeyoung’s face firmly as the younger twin looked at the elder directly in the eye.
 “Hyung, it’s not your fault. No one could have predicted what was going to happen. You did your best to protect her and I’m pretty sure you would have done more if circumstances allowed it.”
 “I should have been the one that was hit…not…not MC.”
 “Saeyoung...she did it for you. I’m sure that if time was suddenly reset to that moment she would gladly push you and get crushed by the metal over and over if it means that you’ll be safe. She would have been devastated if she was unable to save you.” Saeyoung eyes started misting at the thought.
“We never know, in her grief she might even wish on a wizard or something just to reset time over and over.” Saeran paused to wipe away tears that had started to leak from Saeyoung’s eyes.
  “Because MC loves you very much.”
 Saeyoung couldn’t say anything anymore and just succumbed to his brother, fully embracing him and his words. Saeyoung’s hold on Saeran tightened as he buried his face on his younger brother’s shoulder, trembling and sobbing his heart out for his beloved.
 “I’m scared Saeran…I…I don’t want to lose her…” Saeyoung whispered from the younger Choi’s shoulder.
 It was then that silent tears finally trickled down Saeran’s face as he held his older brother tight.
 “M-me too hyung… I don’t want to lose my s-sister after finally having one.”
 Several minutes passed by and the other RFA members came one by one. First was Zen, fresh from rehearsal, who ran straight to the hospital the moment he knew what happened from Saeyoung’s words in the messenger. Second was Yoosung who cancelled his LOLOL session at the news of MC’s accident. Third was Jumin with Jaehee following after him, who adjourned their meetings early just to go to see MC.
Saeran was the one that relayed everything that happened to MC to the others, much to the older Choi’s relief. It was a blessing to Saeyoung that Saeran was shockingly grounded in such a crisis, allowing the younger Choi to be the pillar of support this time around. It was a striking contrast to his unhinged state two years ago.
Seconds, minutes, and hours had passed and MC was still at the Emergency room. It was Zen’s turn now to pace back and forth the waiting room while Yoosung was quietly stifling his sobs. Saeran was beside him, patting his back. Jumin still retained his poker face expression, but one look into his eyes and one could see the storm-like turmoil building inside it. Jaehee was quietly humming a tune from one of Zen’s musicals to herself, a specific one that MC liked most in order to distract herself for a bit. 
And Saeyoung…he was by the window, looking at the moon and the stars above with distant yearning
The longer that MC was gone, the more that worry seems to prod at them. In those moments all the RFA members shared one thing in common: shock and unsettlement at the events of the night. Silence engulfed the air in their torturous waiting. For all they could do was wait.
 And wait.
 And wait some more.
    And then the door finally opened.
  All of them let out a collective sigh of relief when the doctor announced that MC was stable and will be waking up in a week or so. To the gang, it was as if a raging storm finally ceased, leaving a rainbow in its wake. After a few minutes she was transferred to the ICU for further monitoring. And with that the whole gang was able to take a good look at her through the window.
A steady beeping sound was all they heard as they saw MC being hooked into the equipment in the room, monitoring her vitals. MC was extremely lucky to survive after one of the heavy metals hit her head. Not only that, she only got minor bruises and injuries throughout her body.
 With the knowledge that MC was safe, the others were finally at peace to go home, promising to return to visit later. After they left, it was Only Saeran, Saeyoung and MC in the room. Saeran was fast asleep in one of the couches nearby, tired from staying up all night. Saeyoung placed a soft kiss to his forehead, muttering a soft “Thank you” before he proceeded to go straight to MC. Saeyoung sat beside her bed and admired his beloved’s sleeping form.  All traces of worry was non-existent as a relieved smile was plastered on his face while he stared at her. Even with all the things hooked unto her and the white wrappings around her head and all throughout her body, MC was still the most beautiful person in Saeyoung’s eyes. 
Gently, Saeyoung closed his eyes and leaned his head in her chest. The soft rhythmic thumps of her heart soothed him. They assured him that the love of his life was indeed alive and well. That he didn’t lose her after all. 
That his star was still there to shine brightly in his life.
Tears silently escaped through Saeyoung’s eyes as he whispered to her.
 “My love you have no idea how worried I was. I thought that I was going to lose you. Don’t do that again please.” Slowly, he entwined their hands together as he caught a glimpse of the moon from the window.
 “But…thank you for holding on and being alive. I’m happy that I still have a chance to fulfill my promise to you.” Saeyoung’s eyes traveled to her hand and to the beautiful engagement ring in it. “Maybe I can still marry you in the space station or finally be able to explore the moon with you.”
 “I guess what I’m just saying is that I’m happy that I still have the chance to spend the rest of my life with you. Wake up soon okay?” With those words Saeyoung kissed her.
 “I love you MC.”
      Several days passed.
   Red. MC was sure that all she could see was darkness. But now a single red glow seemed to appear. The red orb started to become more prominent as a voice, an all too familiar voice grew louder. As the voice kept on getting louder and clearer, the red glow kept getting bigger until-
 Golden eyes were the first thing MC saw when she opened her eyes.
 “MC you’re finally awake!”
  Without a moment’s hesitation MC was engulfed in a tight, longing hug. MC wrapped her arms around Saeyoung and closed her eyes.
 “Don’t scare me like that again please, I don’t think my heart could take it.” Saeyoung whispered in her hair in desperation.
 “Sorry my love, I couldn’t help it.”
 “I’m just…I’m just happy that you are safe now.”
 With very word from Saeyoung, a transparent red glow would always appear and vanish in front of her. But MC didn’t pay attention to it for now. After all, she was finally safe in her lover’s arms, relishing in his warmth.  And that was all she could ask for in that moment. Everything was calm. Everything was right.
 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Everyone was relieved to see MC cheerful and alive again. Their previous worries from before melted away at the sound of her laughter.
But this time it was MC who began to be troubled.  Ever since the accident, she began to see things around her differently.
It all started with Saeyoung. Every time her fiancé would talk to her, a red transparent glow would appear in front of her line of sight. This red glow would then grow larger and more opaque the louder Saeyoung’s voice was. After he stopped talking, the orb would quickly vanish with it. 
And it was not just Saeyoung. 
Saeran’s voice was pink, Jaehee’s was yellow, Yoousung’s was green, Zen’s was grey and Jumin’s was purple, her own was white. And whenever all of them talked or laughed at the same time, it looked like a bunch of colors were constantly exploding in her sight. At the time MC ruled it out to be just the after effects of the medicine and  that it would be gone after a while.
 But it didn’t go away.
 After MC was released from the hospital, she temporarily moved in with the Choi twins in their bunker so that they could take care of her while she recovered. As she always around the bunker MC didn’t feel like she was temporarily moving in. To her it just felt like she was finally home. And that home became more colorful now.
 Even while they were talking in the couch, or whenever Saeyoung was on the other side of the door, singing in the shower, a red glow would suddenly appear and vanish with the sound of his voice. The same goes for Saeran.  And thus pink and red followed her everywhere. This went on for a few days until finally she decided to tell the twins.
  “So you mean to tell me that every time you hear our voices, colors suddenly pop up?” Saeyoung clarified.
 “Pretty much, yeah.”
 “And this all started after you woke up from the accident?” Saeran added as he scooted closer to the two.
 MC nodded at them. “Strange right?”
 The trio were lost in thought at the revelation. But out of nowhere Saeyoung clapped his hands, an “Aha!” leaving his mouth, causing another red glow to appear in front of MC.
 “I don’t think it’s strange at all, in fact if my guess is correct, it’s actually something cool!” Saeyoung cheered, unable to hide the grin on his face.
 “What? I don-“
 “I think you have Synesthesia my love.”
 “Synesthesia?” MC and Saeran asked, bewilderment etched on their faces.
 Adjusting his glasses, Saeyoung reverted to his “encyclopedia mode”.
“Synesthesia is actually a rare perceptual phenomenon where a person’s senses blend together. There’s many types of it. That’s why you sometimes hear people saying that a certain name tastes like chocolate or that the number Seven is red.” Saeyoung grinned at MC as he held her hand, earning him a slight blush from her. “In your case, voices have a distinct color to you.”
 Both Saeran and MC’s eyes lit up in fascination. “But don’t people usually have it from birth?” Saeran asked.
 “Well…I think MC is a special case here. Remember all those cliché movies we watched during movie night where someone hits their head and they suddenly become a genius of sorts?”
 “The same thing happened with MC?” Saeran confirmed.
 “Bingo!”
 MC was speechless. Here she was, being told that she was lucky enough to have had gained an ability of some sort.  Orbs of red and pink pulsated during their whole conversation as she sat there taking in this revelation on her life. MC smiled, with this new trait, her life would now change for good.
  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Life as a new Synesthete was hard at first. Whenever they would go to the supermarket to get groceries, or stock up on Honey Buddha Chips and Dr. Pepper, a cacophony of colors invaded her senses. MC quickly found out that hearing music also elicited the colors. Thus whenever she heard the combined voices of the people in the store and the music playing in the background, colors would unceasingly pulsate in her line of vision. This led to MC having sensory overload in the first few weeks.
 A trip to a neurologist confirmed that MC really had acquired Synesthesia. The doctor explained that when a certain part of MC’s brain was injured, tons of neurotransmitters flocked the area. During her healing process they managed to form new connections around her brain, enabling MC’s senses to blur and mingle with each other. 
 This was an extremely rare feat that happened to the very lucky.
 After some time, MC got used to it. As a musician, hearing the music while also seeing it’s manifestation in colors became a whole new level of immersion. The added visual phenomenon added to the music’s already ethereal charm to her. And that was why she was beyond excited when she, together with Jaehee and Saeyoung were going to the opening night of one of the musicals that Zen was starring in.
 Hand in hand, Saeyoung and MC met up with Jaehee at the entrance of the theater. Nothing could hide the sparkle in the overworked assistant’s eyes that only showed a sliver of her excitement. The musical was said to be an adaptation of a popular romance so Jaehee was super pumped for it.
 A plethora of colors surged MC’s vision when they entered. Whispers and gasps can be heard here and there, but MC was used to it by now. The trio proceeded to go to their seats. With Jaehee on their side, they actually got the best seats in the whole theater, the perfect place to see Zen and his heavenly performance.
 MC sat between Saeyoung and Jaehee, with the former unwilling to let go of her hand even in the theatre. All the murmuring quickly died down when the entire room became pitch black. The performance started a few minutes later.
 At first, there was only pure black. Then the gentle echo of a harp’s strings resounded throughout the room, the musical’s introduction song was starting. To MC, they appeared to be small little dots of white that scattered around, in tune with the strings. Then the stage illuminated to reveal the hero of the night, the beautiful Zen himself. A violin swooped in and quickly set the melody. To MC, the sound looked like elongated glowing orbs of purple. And When Zen sung his part, it was like a transparent grey cloud hovered above him, pulsating in tune with every vibration from Zen’s voice. And this continued on for the rest of the musical. With every song, and with every scene, MC was not only captivated by the actors’ wonderful performance but also with the colors that swirled and fluttered in the whole theater. At times MC would lose her focus on the scene and just move her head about, following the colors that seemed more ethereal due to the contrast with the dark room. Saeyoung could only shoot a knowing smile at the wonder filled expression on MC’s face as he gently nudged her to pay attention to some of the important scenes, to which MC happily obliged.
 After minutes of the performance, the musical was building up to its epic climax.  At this point in the story, Zen was controlling a device in his hands, pressing it’s reset button, as he looked for the exact timeline where his beloved existed in. With every second passing, it was getting harder for Zen to pinpoint where she was. The music also reflected this. The drums were picking up their pace, the piano was racing in a frenzy, and the cellos were crying in desperation. With the increasing tempo, the azures, vermilions, and mints were vibrating like a bomb about to explode. Once Zen was able to locate his princess he only needed to touch her for him to stay in that timeline. The flutes where shouting of their longing. The brass and percussions were picking up in speed. The moment that Zen touched his co-star the orchestra was ablaze. And when he kissed her the violin took the lead and lifted the melody of the scene into a glorious climax. In that moment MC saw more colors than she ever did in her whole life. Glowing orbs of different size and shape all pulsated and moved about in melodious harmony. They were like chromatic nebulae expanding in the air. Like galaxies glowing with each beat. As the gentle strings of the harps resounded with the song, little dots of pulsating white scattered about and joined the symphony of colors.
And all throughout, MC had one thought. It was magnificent, it was exquisite, and it looked like-
 MC turned to Saeyoung and saw his captivated face. An idea suddenly popped up in her mind as an excited smile made its way to her face. MC turned to Jaehee only to see that she was wiping the tears from her eyes. Yes, the plan was already blooming in her mind.
 Seeveral minutes passed and the musical ended. The trio met with Zen backstage. Zen could only blush at the flurry of praises that Jaehee threw at him. The man was even more shocked when Saeyoung also complimented him for his brilliant performance. MC too expressed her admiration for the actor, but she couldn’t let him know that she was distracted at times.  After saying their congratulations to Zen and the other actors, the trio then walked away, leaving Zen to celebrate with his co-stars. On their way out of the theater, Saeyoung excused himself as he went to the comfort room, leaving Jaehee and MC alone.
 “Really Zen was brilliant in all his past roles, but his character as the romantic time traveller is his best one to date.” Jaehee gushed at her as her hands were clasped as if she was praying.
“I agree! His character was just the most captivating to me.” 
MC was amused at this other side of Jaehee that she was seeing. The exciting plethora of colors were long gone now, and was replaced with Jaehee’s gentle yellow.
Jaehee sighed. “I think that I’ve already gushed about Zen a lot. I suppose you’ve heard enough from me tonight.” Jaehee stopped to look at MC directly.  “I’ve noticed that you’ve been distracted somehow MC, would you like to share your thoughts?”
MC was a bit surprised that Jaehee caught her while being so engrossed during Zen’s performance, but she answered her still.
  “Hey Jaehee, can I ask you a favor.”
 “Anything MC, what is it?”
 “Can you squeeze in an appointment with Jumin for me sometime this week? Any free time will do.” Jaehee paled a bit at the mention of her boss but continued on nonetheless.
 “What do you need Mr. Han for?”
 “Oh…I’m just going to plan a special surprise.”
  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was only a few months before the wedding. By this time MC’s injuries have fully healed and she was able to play her violin again. Currently, she was back at her own apartment, practicing for her big surprise. Photos of her and Saeyoung were scattered at her table, along with a pitcher of coffee.
At this point the colors have become the new norm for her and to MC, it would feel like a piece of her will be missing if she were to lose her Synesthesia one day. After all, it was nice playing her violin and being able to see the manifestation of the sounds she produced.
 She was writing down the notes of her latest composition when a cheerful tone pierced through the silence of the atmosphere. MC giggled at the contact picture on display which was Saeyoung, who was trying, but utterly failing to feed a bunch of cats a Honney Buddha chip. Hitting the answer button, she greeted him.
 “Well hello there my meowvellous groom to be! How was tuxedo shopping with Saeran, Zen and Yoosung?”
 “Ehehehe…I think it was a bad idea taking Zen with us.”
 “You passed by the Cat Cafe earlier didn’t you?”
 “I couldn’t help it! The cats were so cute! I wanted to pinch them and hug them and kiss them all over!~”
 “Gasp! Is this a betrayal on our dear Elly!?!?!”
 “No! nononono! Elly will always be the best cat! No cat can compare to her!”
 “Except this one, meow~” MC purred at her phone.
   Silence.
   “Hey umm, Saeyoung, are you still there?”
 “Oh! Uh yeah! I’m s-still here.” In the background MC could hear Yoosung asking Saeyoung why his face was all red. MC could only fist bump the air in elation.
 “Okay, seriously this time no more teasing, how did your search for the perfect suit go?”
 “Oh we’re already done with that. We’re actually on an ice cream break right now before we check how things are going with the catering service.” Saeyoung relayed to her while playing with his spoon, much to Saeran’s chagrin.
 “But it was hard finding the perfect one! Dresses are easier! In fact, I saw lots of gorgeous gowns that are perfect for you while we searching earlier. I even secretly tried a few of them but Saeran stopped me and dragged me away!” MC could sense the gloom radiating from Saeyoung and the glare Saeran must have had.
 “Don’t worry honey, you’ll get to see me in my wedding dress soon enough. Only a few months to go.”
 “Yeah, only few months to go.” Seven looked up to see the stars shining brightly at the sky.
 “Hey umm MC…”
 “Yes Saeyoung?”
 “I’m really sorry that I couldn’t marry you at the space station.” MC could feel the subtle disappointment laced in Saeyoung’s words as he whispered them.
 “Saeyoung…”
 “I know that we promised to marry there but…”
 “Saeyoung, as long as you are the one I’m marrying, I don’t care where we get married. We can get married at the Cat Café with a bunch of cute cats as our guests and I’d still be ecstatic! So please don’t feel too bad about it. I’m just happy that I’m going to marry you.”
 Through the phone, MC could hear Saeyoung chuckle in relief, and she smiled. She was glad that she was able to take one of his fears away, even if it was through simple actions such as their phone call. And if possible, MC wished to take more and more of those fears that terrorized Saeyoung all throughout his life. After all, soon enough they will be bound to each other for the rest of their lives.
 “Ah, what would I do without you MC?” In the background, MC heard Zen calling for them.
“707 needs his 606 after all! Anything you’d like to say to me before you go captain?”
 “Just one space princess.”
 “What is it?”
 “I love you MC. To infinity and beyond.”
 “I love you too Saeyoung, to the ends of the universe.”
 MC smiled sweetly as she whispered to her beloved.
“Forever.”
After kissing the phone, MC ended the call. She was more fired up than ever before to finish her surprise.
  If we can’t go to space, then I’ll just bring space to you my love.
 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The wedding was perfect. From the ceremony to the decorations, everything was spot on. Though it was a small wedding, with the only people in attendance being MC’s family and the RFA, the intimate wedding had it’s own charm. Vanderwood was there too, peaking through the windows. But he decided not to reveal himself, and thus wished the couple happiness before he went his way.
The wedding was held in the church from Saeyoung’s childhood, the place where he first started to hope, and to have faith. And now that hope was there in the form of MC. Saeyoung was in tears as he recited his vows, and so was his blushing bride.
With the wedding finally done, Saeyoung and MC were finally back in the bunker. ‘Our home’ his mind corrected. Saeran was staying with Zen and Yoosung for the first few days so the newlyweds had the whole place to themselves for the time being. Saeyoung couldn’t help but blush at the sight of his beloved. ‘My wife’ his mind echoed on repeat, and he was so  excited at that fact. It still hasn’t fully sunk in that the blushing angel in front of him was actually his wife, the woman he gets to spend the rest of his life with.
 “Hey Saeyoung, there’s still a surprise for you so meet me in the living room after you’re done changing.” MC said with a wink.
 Saeyoung had never changed clothes so fast in his entire life.
 After changing into their casual attire, MC handed him a blindfold.
 “Oh wifey, how bold of you!”
 “Hush my love, it’s for the surprise.” MC countered, her face burning from embarrassment. The two lovers then went into one of Saeyoung’s babies, with MC in the driver’s seat. Saeyoung put on his blindfold and MC started to drive.
 It was then that MC learned that a blindfolded Saeyoung was a very, very chatty Saeyoung.
Due to the lack of visual stimulus, Saeyoung couldn’t help but chatter away to keep himself from being bored to death. Their conversation in the car held the record for the highest number of times cats and Honey Buddha Chips were mentioned. But MC didn’t mind. These were the type of conversations they were going to have for the rest of their life after all and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
 Once they arrived at their destination, MC led Saeyoung by the hand inside a cabin, an all too familiar cabin. Even though he was blindfolded, Saeyoung could not ignore the nostalgic forest scent the cabin emanated. Saeyoung felt MC stop in her tracks to face him. Gently, MC held her husband’s face. Saeyoung’s face grew hot at MC’s touch and he felt himself shiver when their foreheads made contact.
“Saeyoung, my sweet hubby.”
 “Yes honey?” Saeyoung could feel the heat radiating from MC’s face and he was sure that his own was flushed.
 “I love you. I love you so much. I’m so happy that you’re officially mine now.” At her words, Saeyoung bit his lip from excitement. His arms snaked tightly around her waist.
 “Because our new life as husband and wife starts today, I offer this surprise to you my love.”
 MC stepped back a bit to give Saeyoung a chaste kiss to his lips before taking off his blindfold, much to Saeyoung’s delight. Once the blindfold was off, pitch black greeted Saeyoung. For a moment fear surged within him as he called out to MC, unable to see her.
 “I’m here my love, just stay there and sit comfortably.”
 Saeyoung randomly grabbed at the dark until he got hold of a chair to sit on. MC also fumbled in the dark, her hands searching for a particular switch. Once she found the switch, a secret compartment opened revealing a violin and a usb-like device. Once she inserted the device to the violin, she smiled in determination.
 “Saeyoung you are my whole world, so let me share with you how I see my world.”
 After pushing another button in the wall, MC clasped her violin and started playing. With the first two notes, small red and blue orbs started to appear slightly above them. Saeyoung’s eyes widened at the sight before him.
 “This is a song that I dedicate to you Saeyoung, a song I made from our memories together. And now, you’ll get to see it manifest in the way that I do.”
 As the melody of the song was established, white elongated orbs started to appear. Other colors such as orange and green materialized. More colors came in later on. Violets and pinks joined in on the chromatic dance. The colors appeared and disappeared in sync with the music. Saeyoung could only sit in awe, mouth agape at the otherworldly sight above him. A few minutes later, a pre-recorded orchestral ensemble made by MC played through a speaker above. With the addition of the percussions and the strings, new colors surged through the room. The colors differed in shape and size and they seemed to vibrate with the music so well. With the violets overlapping with the oranges and the yellows pulsating with the beat, they looked like an exploding supernova engulfing the ceiling then vanishing right away. When the harps came in, a plethora of little white pulsating dots appeared. Combined, they looked like galaxies and clusters of stars, and thus they created-
 “MC, you’ve made me an entire universe!”
 Saeyoung’s heart was deeply touched by the surprise. He was truly and wholly captivated. MC was able to incorporate their love with every note that she played. 
It wasn’t the first time that Saeyoung heard the song. It wasn’t even the second. In fact, it he had heard it many times before that he knew it by heart by now. He was able to pick out little tunes that he made up when he sang in the shower. He was able to recognize the soothing lullaby that MC sang to him when she thought that he was asleep. He was able to hear the theme songs they made up for themselves especially on their date nights. He was sure that he was also able to catch traces of the sing-song way they sometimes talked to each other. And Saeyoung swore that the violin meowed at one point. MC was able to take these little bits from their everyday life and arranged them into a song that reflected their love. And their love managed to bring down outer space to earth.
  This love of theirs created stars and galaxies.
 This love of theirs managed to make them a universe of their own.
 And it was truly breathtaking.
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As MC finished the song with its last notes, the colors swiftly vanished. The lights turned back on. Saeyoung blinked hard at the harsh light but was able to adjust to it seconds later. Now that the room was bright, Saeyoung was able to take in his surroundings. From the ceiling hung an abundance of little light bulbs who can make the illusion of a glowing orb that can morph in size and shape. And below it was MC.
 She was smiling sweetly at Saeyoung with her cheeks flushed. Saeyoung immediately ran to her and spun her in glee. Giggles sprung out of MC from the excitement. 
When she was finally down, Saeyoung pulled her close to him. MC could feel her husband’s racing heart as she leaned close and wrapped her arms around him. Tears started to trickle from Saeyoung ‘s eyes.
 “Thank you MC thank you! I love you so much babe!”
 When Saeyoung pulled away, he looked directly at MC’s eyes.
 And that’s when he realized.
 MC was truly his star, the brightest and most beautiful star of his life. And his star loves him back unconditionally. Gone were the days he would worry over Saeran. Gone were the days where he lived his life as if he was a dead man walking. Gone were the days where his guilt would eat him, leaving him a depressed shell of his former self. He was no longer 707 or Luciel. He was once again Saeyoung. 
Just Saeyoung. 
With his other half back in his side, and his star lighting up his days, Saeyoung can look forward to a bright future.
  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
“Hey daddy, can you tell me another space fact?”
 “But you already know a lot of what I tell you.”
 “It’s okay, I like stars anyways. Scratch that, I love stars.”
 Saeyoung chuckled as he patted her hair, much to the young one’s delight. His seven-year old daughter was truly like her mother. Even though she inherited his fiery red hair, her eyes and her personality was very much like MC’s. Currently they were on their way to the cabin where MC’s surprise was stored. Once they entered, the ever nostalgic forest scent wafted in the air.
 “So this was mom’s surprise for you when you got married?”
 “Yep, it’s the real deal.”
 Saeyoung’s daughter was awestruck at the many tiny light bulbs that hung from the ceiling. Her mouth was agape as she stared at all of them.
 “So uncle Saeran managed to build all the lightbulbs in here? That’s so cool!!!!”
 “Ah, uncle Jumin was the one who ordered the lightbulbs from abroad while uncle Saeran was the one who assembled them here. Though he modified how it worked later on. But yes, uncle Saeran is very cool!”
 Saeyoung held his daughter’s hand and led her to a wall. His hands fumbled around the wall to find a cheeky button hidden in one of its crevices. A  small “bingo!” left his lips when he pressed it. Suddenly the lights went out. The child gasped at first but was soon comforted by her father’s hand holding hers.
 “So we’re gonna see how mom perceived the song while having Synesthesia?”
  “Yeah.” Saeyoung cheerfully replied. But for a few seconds, a longing look flashed in his face.
“Though it would have been a million times better if your mother was here to play her violin in real time. Even a cellphone recording of her song would have sufficed…but-“
 “It also disappeared during the explosion at the mall.”
 After a few minutes of silence, Saeyoung hugged his daughter in an effort to comfort her.
 “Stella.” Saeyoung softly called to her.
 “Y-yes daddy?”
 “Would you like to see the pretty lights now sweetie?”
  Saeyoung’s daughter nodded.
 With a press of a button, lights suddenly appeared. Multi-colored orbs appeared and disappeared rapidly.  With every passing note, the colors started to multiply with many taking on lots of shapes. Stella’s eyes were glued at the majestic sight before her. Saeyoung turned to his daughter. The bright lights illuminated her face perfectly, allowing Saeyoung to see an all too familiar awestruck expression.
 As the light show progressed, they started to resemble outer space more and more, especially when the plethora of little whites appeared. Little Stella was entranced at the display. When the lightshow finally ceased and the cabin’s light opened, Saeyoung looked at his daughter, only to see-
 “Why are you crying my little star?”
Stella’s body trembled a bit as tiny sobs racked through her body. Saeyoung pulled her into an embrace as the little girl continued to cry on him.
 “It was so beautiful daddy!”
 “Oh, so you were so amazed by the lights? They are pretty gorgeo-“
 “Why didn’t you tell me that uncle Saeran added another melody to accompany the lights?”
 “Wait what!?!?!?”
 Saeyoung pulled away to look at his daughter directly.
 “What do you mean honey? The lights don’t have sound effects anymore.”
 “They don’t? But I was pretty sure that there was a melody, I swear!”
 Saeyoung continued to look at his daughter, processing everything that she was saying. After a few seconds Saeyoung’s eyes lit up as realization dawned upon him.
 “What did you hear sweetie?”
 “As I was looking at the pretty colors there was this melody that was always playing. When there was lots and lots of colors this melody got stronger. I dunno, it just reminded me of mommy’s lullabies back then.”
 A knowing smile bloomed on Saeyoung’s face at Stella’s words. He made a mental note to tell Saeran that there was a new Synesthete in their home.
 “Hey sweetie, do you want to know another space fact?” Saeyoung asked. The little girl nodded.
 “Did you know that some of the stars we see at night are already dead?”
 “They’re already dead!?!? But how? I could still see them twinkling at night. How can they be dead?
 “The stars are so far away that their light takes so long to reach us. Their light is still travelling towards us, thus the reason we still see them at night even if they are long dead.”
 “That’s actually quite sad daddy. I feel like the stars are lying to me.”
 “Why is that sweetie?”
 “Well what if this pretty star that I really like staring at was already dead? I’d feel so betrayed.”
 Stella felt little drops of water fall on her hand. She looked up to see silent tears coming out of her father’s eyes.
 “Daddy, why are you crying?”
 Saeyoung only smiled at her as he patted her head. “I don’t consider it a lie though.” As Saeyoung stared at his daughter, a twinge of longing tugged at his heart. Looking at Stella’s eyes, it’s striking resemblance to MC’s was truly undeniable.
 It was at that moment that finally, Saeyoung fully understood MC.
  “I see it as proof that something can truly live on after death. That forever exists.”
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Precious Things
The sky had already begun to pale from inky violet to fading lavender as she charged down the path and into the family gardens. On another night, Ghislaine might have stopped again to consider how it might look beyond the swathe of arcane shielding that held the last of the world in its care. But not this night.
This night, her as-yet-budding frame railed against a blooming vine, caught on the gossamer filaments woven into her hair as she rushed past. She spun about, swatting at the tendrils with an embittered cry, until at last the silk-lined satchel she carried was pitched unceremoniously at a nearby statue- an alabaster priestess poised in prayer, peace on her parted lips with her arms open wide.
Schoolbooks, strewn about the spiral stone walkway, lay in their disheveled mess in the priestess’ shadow, and she found a place beside them to match. She hadn’t thought it would come to this- had left the Lucineum that day in a flurry of words meant to wound, with daggers for eyes and ice in her veins. But it all became so painfully beyond her young self the moment her knees hit the ground, and she was powerless to contain the wretchedness that spilled over when it did.
“What troubles you, Stella?” The soft voice beset with an ageless beauty and experience well beyond their walls was a far greater contender, however, as was the warm hand that squeezed at her shoulder. She swallowed her tears, hiccuping lightly as she lifted her head.
“Mamé...” she whimpered childishly in spite of herself, crumpling like a discarded note card into the elder woman’s arms. The serene figure with her soft smile was very nearly a fixture herself in those gardens, a presence who fit seamlessly into the quiet glow of starlight roses and the gentle murmur of flowing water. But to Ghislaine, she was simply ‘grandma’.
Of course, Vierinne Étoileur was in fact Ghislaine’s great-grandmother, and a venerable warrior-priestess even before the breaking of the world. Once a cherished remnant from a time long since slipped through their fingers, she had led her family with all the grace and cunning of a queen. As the years passed, when her daughters and their daughters grew into the business of life in their secluded Suramar, she had stepped instead into a life of prayer in her beloved floral temple. 
Ghislaine had often found her there, for stories and songs as a girl. And perhaps it had been her intent to find her all along when she’d barreled into those peaceful surroundings, a storm cloud in a sea of stars.
The story came trickling out in fits and starts, soon becoming a veritable downpour of prepubescent humiliation that was surely hard to follow. But follow the elder priestess did, listening calmly to the tale of how Mireille Alarin, Ghislaine’s playmate and friend for as far back as she could remember, had that day decided in a fit of spite to read aloud a note in which Ghislaine confessed to liking a boy by the name of Zachael.
“He was right there, and everyone started laughing, Mamé,” she explained, voice wavering between haughtiness and hurt. “It’s all because she likes him herself. I should tell everyone about her ridiculous poems.” But as foolish as it would seem a century after the fact, not once did Vierinne dismiss her story. The former matriarch simply hummed her acknowledgment, threading soothing fingers through her great-grandchild’s hair until her anger slowly began to abate.
“My Stella. I would give you this,” she broke her relative silence then, only enough that the girl might hear. And as her tearful rendition of the day’s events tapered off, Ghislaine felt the touch of cool fingers graze her nape, leaving a weighted warmth behind with another sweep of her hair. 
Reaching up in turn, she took hold of the pale piece of crescent-shaped opal hanging from a thin thread of silver around her neck. Lifting it to the fading moonlight, she marveled at the way its delicate riot of colours refused to stay still for more than a second, like lights on the water, or a gathering of Wisps at play. A stillness set in, until she didn’t think twice about tucking her head into the soft silk gathered at Vierinne’s shoulder. 
“Why is it so many colours…?” she murmured, forgetting for the moment to cleave to indignation, wonder instead taking hold of her. The elder priestess, with calloused hands and inborn elegance, gave a smile Ghislaine could hear.
“Because Mother Moon is many things. Night after night, Her light guides our path, and Her darkness keeps us safe. Even now, She tends to our skies, our seas… and all who seek Her.” All at once, the young girl found herself given over to the old stories, of a Sisterhood veiled in moonlight, their ranks as fierce and formidable as they were faithful. She smiled in turn, silver-lined ears perked and listening.
“In this, we know Elune is our Mother. But we know that She is also the Night Warrior, who carries the valiant dead to their place among the stars. Of course, She feels anger when Her people are wronged, when She is wronged.” Her great-grandmother’s words filtered into Ghislaine’s imagination, sinking in with a certain stilting in her belly. For her part, Vierinne’s arms only wrapped tighter around her.
“And yet, She is ever the Wise Lady too. She gives when She could take. Builds, when She could be tearing down. Forgives, when She could hold onto hurt forever. She teaches us that anger is a tool, to be channeled towards something truly worthwhile… and that, Stella, is a very precious thing.” 
That was the first time Ghislaine felt it, a subtle shift of weight and warmth, memory given life in the core of that pendant. It took only a moment, just a press of the priestess’ thumb into the centre of its curving shape, and the scent of jasmine flower and cooling ash was fresh in the air.
Decades would pass and she would feel it still, through the loss of their world and into the gaining of another… long after her great-grandmother had passed from both. Even in the outskirts of Rustberg Village, sea-bound and streaked with grey, Ghislaine could feel that gentle whisper of presence, of warmth and wonder that sought to stay her hand. She had forgotten, for a moment, where she’d come from. Who she was. There were plenty of things better left behind, she knew, but this… this was not one of them.
It had taken a bit of effort, once she’d set out to procure the necessary elements, between a meeting with some refugees, and a favour or two called in with old acquaintances from Shal’aran. The jaunt and subsequent hike through the scarred lands at the foot of Mount Hyjal had been the toughest part, by the end, but she would spare no expense, be it time or tender, once her mind was made.
When at last it was done, she had returned home cool-headed and calm, with a perfect cut of polished white opal. Left raw rather than shaped, its natural asymmetry would be fully on display, colours dancing this way and that, and never quite the same way twice. Her thumb smoothed gently along its rough centre, a sharp indentation that led to a slanted peak, its weight and newly imposed warmth bearing a familiarity in her hand. 
It may be that it wouldn’t carry much meaning to an onlooker, but that it now existed, cradled gently in her palm, meant a great deal to her in and of itself. She would see to giving it as planned at their earliest convenience, the final step in a worthwhile endeavour. And as she looked out the window and into the growing evening below, even out towards the crowd beginning to funnel into the quaint tavern with its amber lights, she let a hand drop to the barest hint of concave swell, low in her belly, fingers smoothing along the gauzy edges of her blouse.
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(( @audemus-dawnspark for vague af implied mention, lol. Oh and also my babes at @heartoftheravenwra of course! ))
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