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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVI
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Who has not wept with Manon? Of all tales
 That thrill youth`s fancy or to tears or mirth
 None other is there where such grief prevails,
 Such passionate pity for the loves of Earth.
 Who has not wept with Manon in her sin,
 Wept in her punishment? What angry heart
 Has been unmoved in youth to see her win
 With those sad archers to the inhuman cart?
 Who has not followed her beyond the seas,
 And sold his life for her, and bowed his pride,
 And sinned all sins to buy her back to ease,
 And died all deaths to venge her when she died?
 And I, blest boy, who each new happy night
 When all was done still lived in her delight!
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