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SACRIFICE, by                    
First Line: My love, I made a sacrifice last night
Last Line: To deftly pluck all strings of my soul's lyre.
Subject(s): Sacrifices


My Love, I made a sacrifice last night.
Upon a pyre, a withered rose-leaf bed,
my old opinions, hopes, were humbly spread.
While lying prone, bathed in a lustral light,
with eyes half closed, I saw the radiance write
the sanctification of my thoughts now dead,
new-born, made holy in a path to tread,
whose guardian heals the heart of every blight.

Strange music broke the air of rebeldom
to chasten me, immersed in mounting fire,
appealing music in exordium
to soothe the anguish on the burning pyre,
triumphant now, as if some god had come
to deftly pluck all strings of my soul's lyre.





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