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\begin{document}
\begin{poem}
\title{Dilemma}

\stanza*
Beauty is plenteous in the world \\
In mind and voice and face, \\
Yet stricture tells me that I must \\
Old love with new replace; \\

\stanza*
However many wise there be, \\
However many fair, \\
Yet only one may I enfold \\
Within my heart to bear. \\

\stanza*
I feel a spark but then recoil \\
As back by guilt I'm wrenched: \\
``True love loves only once,'' it says, \\
``Now choose!'' The spark is quenched. \\

\stanza*
But where is truth if we are `true'? \\
Are all our hearts so small \\
That if we cannot love but one \\
We cannot love at all? \\

\stanza*
If sons and daughters can be loved \\
And friends their hearts' warmth share, \\
Why may not lovers thus behave \\
When new love kindles there?
\end{poem}

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\begin{poem}
\begin{latexonly}
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth}
Then I will love as sings my heart, \\
And strive to tie a knot \\
In struggling strands of branching lives \\
And, hold or break, flinch not.
\end{minipage}
\hfill

\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
Lovers do not divide by three, \\
Lips only meet in pairs; \\
No cloth is spun from passion's cord, \\
It weaveth only snares.
\end{minipage}
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      Then I will love as sings my heart,      & Lovers do not divide by three, \\
      And strive to tie a knot                 & Lips only meet in pairs; \\
      In struggling strands of branching lives\tab & No cloth is spun from passion's cord, \\
      And, hold or break, flinch not.          & It weaveth only snares.
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  \end{flushleft}
\end{htmlonly}
\author{Reuben Thomas}
\poemdate{Adelaide, 27th--28th July 1998}
\end{poem}
\begin{notes}
  ``Web'' changed to ``cloth'' 14th February 2002, after Eugenia Cheng
  pointed out that a web \emph{is} a snare.
\end{notes}
\end{document}
