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I have passed from the outermost portal
To the shrine where sin is a prayer;
What care though the service be mortal?
O our Lady of Torture, what care?
All thine the last wine that I pour is
The last in the chalice we drain,
O fierce and luxurious Dolores,
Our Lady of Pain.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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