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1882–1937

PENANCES

John Drinkwater

These are my happy penances. To make Beauty without a covenant; to take Measure of time only because I know That in death’ s market-place I still shall owe

Service to beauty that shall not be done; To know that beauty’ s doctrine is begun And makes a close in sacrifice; to find In beauty’ s courts the unappeasable mind.

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