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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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