The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson Edited, with an introduction, by Desmond Flower |
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THE REQUITAL
Because I am idolatrous, and have besought,With grievous supplication, and consuming prayer,
The admirable image; that my dreams have wrought,
Out of her swan's neck and her dark, abundant hair;
The jealous gods that brook no worship save their own,
Turn my live idol marble, and her heart—a stone!
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