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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

The Writing On the Ground

… Was wreathed with moon-flowers pale as lips of death.”” This poem ends with a controversy between these two persons : “.. .. [pray thee speak me sooth : What is thy name?’ He said, ‘ My name is Love.’ Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, ‘ He lieth, for his name is Shame ; But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night ; Iam true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.’ ‘Then sighing said the other, ‘ Have thy will. I am the Love that dare not speak its name.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

…thy money. The penny-a-liner prostitute who wrote it has only our contempt—even blackmailers sometimes starve. It isof his master I must speak. This crawling creature (would we could hope him to be mere victim of Religious mania!) i vilifying his dead friend, seeking to right himself with Heaven.— Oh, fears of Hell and hopes of Paradise!” It has its grimly humorous aspect. * “The First Stone,”’ by T. W. H. Crosland. 3

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