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1898 · PDF PAGE 5

Aceldama

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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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

Aceldama

…s must strain—aye, and most move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. 1 9

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1898 · PDF PAGE 28

Aceldama

…My arms a little, and you love for lair My heavy hair ! It is a fatal web your fingers spin. ( Baise la lourde crinière ! ) Let our love end as other loves begin, Or, slay me at The Moment, unaware, Or, kiss in mutual death-pang, if you dare— Or one day I will strange you within My heavy hair !

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