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White Stains
White Stains (1898), PDF p. 24
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18
DÉDICACE
Lie close ; no pity, but a little love.
Kiss me but once and all my pain is paid.
Hurt me or soothe, stretch out one limb above
Like a strong man who would constrain a maid.
Touch me ; I shudder and my lips turn back
Over my shoulder if so be that thus
My mouth may find thy mouth, if aught there lack
To thy desire, till love is one with us.
God ! I shall faint with pain, I hide my face
For shame. I am disturbed, I cannot rise,
I breathe hard with thy breath ; thy quick embrace
Crushes ; thy teeth are agony—pain dies
In deadly passion. Ah ! you come—you kill me !
Christ ! God ! Bite ! Bite ! Ah Bite ! Love’s fountains fill me.
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