20. Descent

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Oh depravity!
What is it that bids me fall
into thy cold and dark embrace?
Is it my head, is it my heart?
Is it some other; that which my soul shall not impart?

Thy beckoning call beguiles me, ere many a darkening night,
and begs me cast myself aside;
and lose my will,
my pride,
my life.

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