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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

…u and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to establish clearly the abominable character of this book. We are sure that the moment it is brought to the notice of Lord Alfred Douglas he will take the proper steps to crush the perpetrator. The title-page discloses, as might be expected, both the title of the book and the name of the author. The former is “ Poémes,”, and the latter is Lord Alfred Douglas.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Writing On the Ground

…ce. Your tepid verses come like boons To cheer Suburban afternoons; While Asquith, were he only wise, Would bid a Board of Morals rise ; Sure no one like yourself can be Past-Master in Virginity, Reprinted by permission from “The Winged Beetle,” by Aleister Crowley, 1910. ;

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1913 · PDF PAGE 5

The Writing On the Ground

… book published some years ago in Paris, but reprinted in an expur- gated form in England; a book of so abominable a character that I am sure it is only necessary to direct his lordship’s attention to it to raise a very considerable turmoil. We quote one or two passages > “ Their (men’s) eyes for beauty are but sightless holes, Spurned in the dust, Uranian passion lies. Dull fools decree the sweet unfruitful love, In Hellas counted more than half divine, Less than half human now.’” And again :— “0, food to my starved eyes, (That gaze unmoved on…

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