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Travelling Standing Still/The Quiet Woman

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4695056Travelling Standing Still — The Quiet WomanGenevieve Taggard
THE QUIET WOMAN

I will defy you down until my death
With cold body, indrawn breath;
Terrible and cruel I will move with you
Like a surly tiger. If you knew
Why I am shaken, if fond you could see
All the caged arrogance in me,
You would not lean so boyishly, so bold,
To kiss my body, quivering and cold.