Epithalamium by Fernando Pessoa — Read

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Now will her grave of untorn maidenhood / Be dug in her small blood.

Assemble ye at that glad funeral / And weave her scarlet pall, / O pinings for the flesh of man that often / Did her secret hours soften / And take her willing and unwilling hand / Where pleasure starteth up.

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