Death & Dying
XVI
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Death & Dying
Her great grave beauty covers her
As that sleek spoil beneath her feet
Clothed once the anointed soothsayer;
The hallowing is gone forth from it
Now, made unmeet for priests to wear.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/379/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/379/.
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