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The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 152
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IN MEMORIAM
E. R. et E. H.
STRIP, dear ! Naked-pure you lie
Surely we are done with dreams !
Open to the worlds wide eye !
Let them know, sweet, how it seems
(To a love like ours) to die !
So, dear ! Virginal you were
When I touched your life with song ;
Virgin now to death lie there !
You shall not await him long.
(Fold your body in your hair !)
Satan, hail ! our consecration !
Lilies, lilies : let them swathe you,
Robes baptismal of damnation !
Tuberose and iris bathe you
In the sea, annihilation !
All white flowers I build, a fane
Fit to shroud the sacrifice.
I will kiss you once again
Ere I pull the trigger twice.
Or our death were died in vain.
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