Saturday, January 2, 2016

Death

Quote from English poet A.C. Swinburne's [1837-1909] "A Ballad of Death":

[...]
Kings bowed themselves and shed 
Pale wine, and honey with the honeycomb, 
And spikenard bruised for a burnt-offering; 
Even she between whose lips the kiss became 
As fire and frankincense; 
Whose hair was as gold raiment on a king, 
Whose eyes were as the morning purged with flame, 
Whose eyelids as sweet savour issuing thence.
[...]

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