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To-morrow is the day when Christ our Lord Were you a shop-girl and myself a clerk,
Rose from the dead; therefore, the shopsare shut. Things might be better — we could surely meet
Men may get drunk, or syphilized, or bored, With due umbrellas in the dripping Park
Robbed, murdered, or regenerated — but ! And decorously spoon upona seat.
But they must not get letters, be amused, This is the penalty one pays for rank
Or do a thing they want to do till Monday; And fortune ! Ah, my Lola, I am dying
Whence comes the universally-diffused And mad — or would God play me such a prank
And steady popularity of Sunday. As to dictate such verse while you are crying?
And yet I grumble ! avy other day Let me too weep, weep on! weep out my soul,
I might receive a message from my Lola : Weep till the world of sense was wept away
” The siege is raised. Meet me as usual!’ Nay! And, dead, I reached you at the glimmering goal
For me the sofa and Verlaine or Zola, Whither you had outrun me! Weep, I say,
; ; ws Teep! It is better. Th r hrism —
Till Christ’s affair is over, and the town Weep! It is better. Thus one earns a chrism
. . Who ever gained one by cheap cynicism?
Runs a young resurrection of its own. g y p cy
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