"The Highwayman"
by Alfred Noyes

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V

The tip of one finger touched it; she strove no more for the rest!
Up, she stood up to attention, with the barrel beneath her breast,
She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
     Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins in the moonlight throbbed to her love's refrain .

 
 
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