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/ These are the facts: -- I was to blame: / I brought her here and wrought her shame: / She came with me all trustingly. / Lovely and innocent her face: / And in her perfect form, the grace / Of purity and modesty.
/ I think I loved her then: 'would dote / On her ambrosial breast and throat, / Young as a blossom's tenderness: / Her eyes, that were both glad and sad: / Her cheeks and chin, that dimples had: / Her mouth, red-ripe to kiss and kiss.
/ Three months passed by; three moons of fire; / When in me sickened all desire: / And in its place a devil, -- who / Filled all my soul with deep disgust, / And on the victim of my lust / Turned eyes of loathing, -- swiftly grew.
/ One night, when by my side she slept, / I rose: and leaning, while I kept / The dagger hid, I kissed her hair / And throat: and, when she smiled asleep, / Into her heart I drove it deep: / And left her dead, still smiling there.