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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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SACRILEGE

Wed, thou, with sweet and silent Death,
Rather than join the prurient throng
Would soil, with foul, empoisoned breath,
The sanctity of song.
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