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Vengeance.

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I     Let it sink, let it sink     On the pungent-petaled pink         By those poppy puffs;     Fairy-fashioned downiness,     Light, weak moth in furry dress         Of white fluffy stuffs.     II     Where the thin light slipping sweet     Dimples prints of Fairy feet         On the white-rose blooms,     One dim blossom delicate     Droops a face all pale with hate,         Dead with sick perfumes.     III     And I read the riddle wove     In this rose's course of love         For the fickle pink: -     Thou the rose's phantom art     Stealing to the pink's false heart         Vampire-like to drink.

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