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Aceldama
Aceldama (1898), PDF p. 5
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DEDICATION.
DIVINE PHILOSOPHER ! Dear Friend !
Lover and Lord ! accept the verse
That marches like a sombre hearse,
Bearing Truth’s coffin, to the end.
Let man’s distorted worships blend
In this, the worthier and the worse,
And penetrate the primal curse.
Alas ! They will not comprehend.
Accept this gospel of disease
In wanton words proclaimed, receive
The blood-wrought chaplet that I weave.
Take me, and with thine infamies
Mingle my shame, and on my breast
Let thy desire achieve the rest.
Midnight, 1897—1898.
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