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EPITAPH: FOR A VIRGIN LADY by COUNTEE CULLEN

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First Line: FOR FORTY YEARS I SHUNNED THE LUST
Last Line: I LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY.
Subject(s): LUST; DEATH; DEAD, THE;
For forty years I shunned the lust
Inherent in my clay:
Death only was so amorous
I let him have his way.



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