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The D cadent was speaking to his soul	A
Poor useless thing he said	B
Why did God burden me with such as thou	C
The body were enough	D
The body gives me all	E
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The soul's a sort of sentimental wife	F
That prays and whimpers of the higher life	F
Objects to latch keys and bewails the old	G
The dear old days of passion and of dream	H
When life was a blank canvas yet untouched	I
Of the great painter Sin	J
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Yet little soul thou hast fine eyes	K
And knowest fine airy motions	L
Hast a voice	M
Why wilt thou so devote them to the church	N
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His face grew strangely sweet	O
As when a toad smiles	P
He dreamed of a new sin	J
An incest 'twixt the body and the soul	A
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He drugged his soul and in a house of sin	J
She played all she remembered out of heaven	Q
For him to kiss and clip by	R
He took a little harlot in his hands	S
And she made all his veins like boiling oil	T
Then that grave organ made them cool again	U
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Then from that day he used his soul	A
As bitters to the over dulcet sins	V
As olives to the fatness of the feast	W
She made those dear heart breaking ecstasies	V
Of minor chords amid the Phrygian flutes	V
She sauced his sins with splendid memories	V
Starry regrets and infinite hopes and fears	V
His holy youth and his first love	X
Made pearly background to strange coloured vice	V
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Sin is no sin when virtue is forgot	Y
It is so good in sin to keep in sight	Z
The white hills whence we fell to measure by	R
To say I was so high so white so pure	A2
And am so low so blood stained and so base	V
I revel here amid the sweet sweet mire	B2
And yonder are the hills of morning flowers	V
So high so low so lost and with me yet	C2
To stretch the octave 'twixt the dream and deed	D2
Ah that's the thrill	E2
To dream so well to do so ill	E2
There comes the bitter sweet that makes the sin	J
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First drink the stars then grunt amid the mire	B2
So shall the mire have something of the stars	V
And the high stars be fragrant of the mire	B2
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The D cadent was speaking to his soul	A
Dear witch I said the body was enough	D
How young how simple as a suckling child	F2
And then I dreamed 'an incest 'twixt the body and the soul '	-
Let's wed I thought the seraph with the dog	G2
And wait the purple thing that shall be born	H2
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And now look round seest thou this bloom	I2
Seven petals and each petal seven dyes	V
The stem is gilded and the root in blood	J2
That came of thee	K2
Yea all my flowers were single save for thee	K2
I pluck seven fruits from off a single tree	K2
I pluck seven flowers from off a single stem	L2
I light my palace with the seven stars	V
And eat strange dishes to Gregorian chants	V
All thanks to thee	K2
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But the soul wept with hollow hectic face	V
Captive in that lupanar of a man	M2
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And I who passed by heard and wept for both	N2
The man was once an apple cheek dear lad	O2
The soul was once an angel up in heaven	Q
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O let the body be a healthy beast	W
And keep the soul a singing soaring bird	P2
But lure thou not the soul from out the sky	R
To pipe unto the body in the sty	R

Richard Le Gallienne

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