Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites, Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites, Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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