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BROKEN LOVE.

My Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;
My Emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.

A fathomless and boundless deep,
There we wander, there we weep;
On the hungry craving wind
My Spectre follows thee behind.

He scents thy footsteps in the snow,
Wheresoever thou dost go;

Through the wintry hail and rain
When wilt thou return again?

Poor pale pitiable form
That I follow in a storm,

From sin I never shall be free
Till thou forgive and come to me.

A deep winter dark and cold
Within my heart thou dost unfold;
Iron tears and groans of lead
Thou bind'st around my aching head.

Dost thou not in pride and scorn
Fill with tempests all my morn,
And with jealousies and fears ?—
And fill my pleasant nights with tears?

O'er my sins thou dost sit and moan:
Hast thou no sins of thine own?
O'er my sins thou dost sit and weep
And lull thine own sins fast asleep.

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THE DEFILED SANCTUARY.

I SAW a chapel all of gold

That none did dare to enter in, And many weeping stood without, Weeping, mourning, worshipping.

I saw a serpent rise between

The white pillars of the door,
And he forced and forced and forced
Till he the golden hinges tore:

And along the pavement sweet,
Set with pearls and rubies bright,
All his shining length he drew,
Till upon the altar white

He vomited his poison out

On the bread and on the wine.

So I turned into a sty,

And laid me down among the swine.

CUPID.

WHY was Cupid a boy,
And why a boy was he?
He should have been a girl,
For aught that I can see.

For he shoots with his bow,

And the girl shoots with her eye, And they both are merry and glad And laugh when we do cry.

Then to make Cupid a boy

Was surely a woman's plan, For a boy never learns so much Till he has become a man:

And then he's so pierced with cares
And wounded with arrowy smarts,

That the whole business of his life
Is to pick out the heads of the darts.

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