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JEZEBEL 
 
 
 
 
 
CONCERNING CERTAIN SINS. 
 
SOME sins assume a garb so fine and white 
That the blue veil of Heaven seems to shade 
Their purity.  They are winged so wide and bright 
That even angels’ pinions seem to fade, 
And the archangel’s wing recedes in night :— 
Ay !  even God seems perturbed and afraid 
Because it wears so holy a garb of light 
Of perfumed fire immaculately made. 
 
These sins are deadly.  God is merciless 
For Love that joins Man’s passion with His 
power, 
And makes to bloom on earth a fairer flower 
Than heaven bears.  Our token of success 
Is that displeasure toward our sin unnamed 
Of a fierce demon jealous and ashamed.