VAGRANT VERSE
THE RELAPSE. O turn away those cruel eyes, The stars of my undoing! Or death, in such a bright disguise, May tempt a second wooing. Punish their blind and impious pride, Who dare contemn thy glory; It was my fall that deified Thy name, and sel’d thy story. Yet no new sufferings can prepare A higher praise to crown thee; Though my first death proclaim thee fair, My second will unthrone thee. Lovers will doubt thou canst entice No other for thy fuel, And if thou burn one victim twice, Both think thee poor and cruel. —Thomas Stanley (1625-78 R
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Southland Times, Issue 19357, 24 September 1924, Page 4
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102VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 19357, 24 September 1924, Page 4
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