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Now you are mine, to-night at last I say it; / You're a dove I have bought for sacrifice, / And to-night I slay it.
Here in my arms my naked sacrifice! / Death, do you hear, in my arms I am bringing / My offering, bought at great price.
She's a silvery dove worth more than all I've got. / Now I offer her up to the ancient, inexorable God, / Who knows me not.
Look, she's a wonderful dove, without blemish or / spot! / I sacrifice all in her, my last of the world, / Pride, strength, all the lot.
All, all on the altar! And death swooping down / Like a falcon. 'Tis God has taken the victim; / I have won my renown.