Drunk again! cried the hag Respectability.
Madam, I replied with old-world civility,
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Drunk again! cried the hag Respectability.
Madam, I replied with old-world civility,
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It is the season of tiredness. Even the stones
Lie heavy. What to say then of human flesh and bones?
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The Beloved is kindness itself, he grants every prayer.
But it is a wise man who knows for what he prays—so beware.
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Worldly man or wanderer are the same to us
So long as they’re honest—it’s all God’s game to us.
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Long hair or shaved head, clown’s paint, tongs, bowls and rosaries
Are found to be a sure way of effecting ‘the squeeze’.
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Everyone thinks he is the burden-bearing title-holder.
From the lover’s viewpoint no burden at all does he shoulder.
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Then there is the Law—the Law of unlove which binds;
Which feeds the worm and the bully in men, which blinds;
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These are not the times for the clean word, the straight sentence;
For the turning and the praise which is the true repentance.
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Though you have remained aloof we have not sought other shrines;
Rather have we fanned with our sighs the flame that refines.
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