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LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE REBUKER by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS

First Line: OUT O'ER THE WINDINGS OF A DARK SIDE-STREET
Last Line: THEY HEARD A STEALTHY STEP CREEP NIGHER, NIGHER.
Subject(s): LOVE; SIN;
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Out o'er the windings of a dark side-street,
High in a closely curtain'd balcony,
A lady's lover coil'd about her feet,
Drawing her mouth to his; and swooning by
She forced, to still her quick heart's throb and beat,
His face against her burning throat; and high
The gold stars glimmer'd in the midnight heat
Thro' close set citron jars and rosemary.

Then sudden, from the angle of the square
Clear to the moonlight, through the death-still air
Love like a wanton cried aloud for hire;
And struck with bitter loathing of their sin
The lovers wrench'd apart! -- I' the room within,
They heard a stealthy step creep nigher, nigher.



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