1909 · CLOSE READING
Clouds Without Water
Clouds Without Water (1909), PDF p. 45
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XVI
Let me take leave of you as heretofore
With solemn kiss and sacred reverence !
I love you better and I love you more
Daily, and whether you are hither or hence.
I adore you as I adore the holy ones
That do abide exalted in their shrine
Starry beyond mere splendour of stars and suns,
Drunken beyond mere Dionysian wine.
Thus do I hold you; thus F pray you hold
Me as a secret and a blessed chrism
That you have gained to adorn your house ofgold
By some strange silent sacred exorcism.
You have said 'I love you' — sacraments are true ~
I exchange the salutation. I love you
The Black Mass
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