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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 32
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About that citadel of hell ;
A soft lewd flavour, an obscene
Mysterious self of Messaline.
Or, in the kisses that swoop low
To catch my breath and kill me so,
I feel the ghostliness of this
Unreal shuttle-game—the kiss !
Her moving body sobs above,
And calls its lechery true love.
Out from the flame of heart she plucks
One flower of fiery light, and sucks
Its essence up within her lips,
And flings it into mine, and dips
And bends her body, writhes and swims
To link the velvet of our limbs,
My drouthy passion worn and keen,
And lusty life of Messaline.
The heart’s blood in her boiling over
She sucked from many a dying lover :
The purple of her racing veins
Leapt from some soul’s despairing pains ;
She drinks up life as from a cup ;
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