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White Stains
White Stains (1898), PDF p. 106
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VICTORY
While men are living, fair and free—
Ah me, since justice must endure
And draw her sword at last, and be
The eternal conqueror of Thee.
And I, shall my support be sure
In that great day of righteous war ?
Is my soul free ? Is my heart pure ?
Shall life diseased in death find cure ?
Or shall the shameless barren whore
That rules my ways be found my guide,
Wed in bad bands so foul and sore
That Liberty shall be not more
Within my heart or at my side ?
O Pleasure, whom I made my god,
And based my forehead for thy pride
And took thy bastard for my bride,
Subdued my shoulders to thy rod,
Casting before thy feet the things,
The virtues that thou didst hate ; I trod
A bloody winepress, and went shod
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