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HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP

First Line: HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE ROUND HER / WHITE WAIST
Last Line: THE BONY AND THE LIPLESS KISS OF DEATH!
Subject(s): DEATH; VIRGINITY; WOMEN; DEAD, THE; VESTALS;

HASTEN, clasp Maiden Life round her white waist,
And drink in, loverlike, her perfumed breath,
For in the night death waits us—we must taste
The bony and the lipless kiss of Death!



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