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The slow reflection of a woman's face	A
Grew as by witchcraft in the oval space	A
Of that strange glass on which the moon looked in	B
As cruel as death beneath the auburn hair	C
The dark eyes burned and o'er the faultless chin	B
Evil as night yet as the daybreak fair	C
Rose red and sensual smiled the mouth of sin	B
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II	D
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The glorious throat and shoulders and twin crests	E
Of snow the splendid beauty of the breasts	E
Filled soul and body with the old desire	F
Daughter of darkness how could this thing be	G
You whom I loathed for whom my heart's fierce fire	F
Had burnt to ashes of satiety	H
You who had sunk my soul in all that's dire	I
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III	D
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How came your image there and in that room	J
Where she the all adored my life's sweet bloom	J
Died poisoned She my scarcely one week's bride	H
Yea poisoned by a gift you sent to her	F
Thinking her death would win me to your side	H
And so it did but well it made some stir	F
By your own hand I think they said you died	H
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IV	K
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Time passed And then was it the curse of crime	L
That night of nights which forced my feet to climb	L
To that locked bridal room 'T was midnight when	M
A longing like to madness mastered me	G
Compelled me to that chamber which for ten	M
Sad years was sealed a dark necessity	G
To gaze upon I knew not what again	M
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V	G
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Love's ghost perhaps Or in the curvature	F
Of that strange mirror something that might cure	N
The ache in me some message said perchance	O
Of her dead loveliness which once it glassed	H
That might repeat again my lost romance	O
In momentary pictures of the past	H
While in its depths her image swam in trance	O
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VI	K
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I did not dream to see the soulless eyes	P
Of you I hated nor the lips where lies	P
And kisses curled your features that were tuned	H
To all demonic smiling up as might	H
Some deep damnation while my God I swooned	H
Oozed slowly out between the breast's dead white	H
The ghastly red of that wide dagger wound	H

Madison Julius Cawein

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