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The wraiths of murdered hopes and loves	A
Come whispering at the door	B
Come creeping through the weeping mist	C
That drapes the barren moor	D
But we within have turned the key	E
'Gainst Hope and Love and Care	F
Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly at	G
The Tavern of Despair	F
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And we have come by divers ways	H
To keep this merry tryst	C
But few of us have kept within	I
The Narrow Way I wist	C
For we are those whose ampler wits	J
And hearts have proved our curse	K
Foredoomed to ken the better things	L
And aye to do the worse	K
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Long since we learned to mock ourselves	M
And from self mockery fell	N
	-
To heedless laughter in the face	O
Of Heaven Earth and Hell	N
We quiver 'neath and mock God's rod	P
We feel and mock His wrath	Q
We mock our own blood on the thorns	R
That rim the Primrose Path	Q
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We mock the eerie glimmering shapes	S
That range the outer wold	T
We mock our own cold hearts because	U
They are so dead and cold	T
We flout the things we might have been	I
Had self to self proved true	V
We mock the roses flung away	W
We mock the garnered rue	V
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The fates that gibe have lessoned us	X
There sups to night on earth	Y
No madder crew of wastrels than	Z
This fellowship of mirth	Y
Of mirth drink fools nor let it flag	A2
Lest from the outer mist	C
Creep in that other company	E
Unbidden to the tryst	C
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We're grown so fond of paradox	B2
Perverseness holds us thrall	C2
So what each jester loves the best	D2
He mocks the most of all	C2
But as the jest and laugh go round	E2
Each in his neighbor's eyes	F2
Reads while he flouts his heart's desire	G2
The knowledge that he lies	F2
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Not one of us but had some pearls	H2
And flung them to the swine	I2
Not one of us but had some gift	J2
Some spark of fire divine	I2
Each might have been God's minister	G2
In the temple of some art	K2
Each feels his gift perverted move	L2
Wormlike through his dry heart	K2
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If God called Azrael to Him now	M2
And bade Death bend the bow	M2
Against the saddest heart that beats	N2
Here on this earth below	O2
Not any sobbing breast would gain	P2
The guerdon of that barb	Q2
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The saddest ones are those that wear	F
The jester's motley garb	Q2
	-
Whose shout aye loudest rings and whose	R2
The maddest cranks and quips	S2
Who mints his soul to laughter's coin	T2
And wastes it with his lips	S2
Has grown too sad for sighs and seeks	U2
To cheat himself with mirth	Y
We fools self doomed to motley are	V2
The weariest wights on earth	Y
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But yet for us whose brains and hearts	W2
Strove aye in paths perverse	K
Doomed still to know the better things	L
And still to do the worse	K
What else is there remains for us	X
But make a jest of care	F
And set the rafters ringing in	I
Our Tavern of Despair	F

Don Marquis

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