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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VIII
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It was a booth no larger than the rest,
 No loftier fashioned and no more sublime,
 As poor a shrine as ever youth possessed
 In which to worship truth revealed in time.
 Yet to my soul the mean remembrance clings
 With all the folly of that far fair eve,
 And my pulse throbs with lost imaginings,
 And passion rises from its grave to grieve.
 Vain dreams, brute images! and over all
 The shrill--voiced dwarf its hierarch and priest,
 Vaunting its praise, a pagan prince of Baal.
 It scared me as of some wild idol feast.
 ``The Booth of Beauty,`` thus it was I read,
 Blazoned in scarlet letters overhead.
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