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BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PIETY by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD

First Line: BUT WHO IS THIS WITH MILD AND GENTLE AIR
Last Line: ONE BRIDAL KISS -- THAT KISS WILL BE HIS LAST!
Subject(s): PIETY;
But who is this with mild and gentle air
And meekly folded hands as if in prayer?
The last of Bluebeard's luckless wives is she:
He worships her, her name is Piety.
When she unmasks, in place of mask will be
The loathsome features of Hypocrisy;
And now grim Bluebeard's doom approaches fast,
One Bridal Kiss -- that Kiss will be his last!



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