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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

…o’our love and Death and thee.’ Francisco: ‘Nay, nay, I favour not that toast, javier What have we two to do with Death?” Francisco : ‘' Sweet feather ! How soon hast thou forgot thy troth of faith ! Consider, chuck, the toast has but this weight, That thou and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to establish clearly the abominable character of this book. We are sure that the moment it is brought to the notice of Lord Alfred Douglas…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

The Writing On the Ground

…two passages > “ Their (men’s) eyes for beauty are but sightless holes, Spurned in the dust, Uranian passion lies. Dull fools decree the sweet unfruitful love, In Hellas counted more than half divine, Less than half human now.’” And again :— “0, food to my starved eyes, (That gaze unmoved on wanton charms of girls) Fair as the lad on Latmian hills asleep.’ 5

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

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…mpting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large eyes Were strange with wondrous brightness, and staring wide With gazing ; and he sighed with many sighs That moved me, and his cheeks were wan and white Like pallid lilies, and his lips were red Like poppies, and his hands he clenchéd tight, And yet again unclenchéd, and his head Was wreathed with moon-flowers pale as lips of death.”” This poem ends with a controversy between these two pe…

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