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1907 · PDF PAGE 6

Rosa Inferni

…tstart ; And with blood for dew, the bosom boils ; And a gust of sulphur is all its smell. And lo, he is horribly in the toils Of a coal-black giant flower of hell ! BROWNING, Heretic’s Tragedy, ix. I OSE of the world ! Ay, love, in that warm hour Wet with your kisses, the bewitching bud Flamed in the starlight ; then our bed your bower Heaved like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 7

Rosa Inferni

…crets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Upon my murder. This I clearly see Now you are—for an hour—away from me. I see it once ; no need to tell me twice ! II OME Yankee yelled—I tag it to a rime— “ You can’t fool all the people all the time.” So he of politics ; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell …

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