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" The scent of melancholy lingers in her presence,
the poignant perfume of her soul;
It saturates her pillows, her sleeves, her diary
with woeful dew and careless red.
Her head drowns in sweet paradise
but with her gravity centred on mortal earth.
Sorrow cleansed that innocent being,
and had her noble gaze gleamed
with a dangerous spite for all.
But still with a trace of anguish left
she crumbled like wilted white lily petals
in ignominy;
Her marble sculpture of timelessness beauty
frozen in ordeal and tragedy,
A tear-like ruby on her horror-stricken pale face. "

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