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Aceldama
Aceldama (1898), PDF p. 26
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XXIX.
Choked with their reek and fume and bitter sweat
His body perishes, his life is drained,
The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained
Another life, his lips and limbs are wet
With death-dews ! Ha ! The painter has attained
As high a meed
As his who first begot sweet music on a reed.
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And O ! my music is so poor and thin !
I am poor Marsyas ; where shall I find
A wise Olympas and a lover kind
To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin,
Faint, fierce, and horrible, to tune my mind,
And on a reed
Better beloved to bid me discourses at his need ?
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