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By Damiano Baldoni.
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Damiano Baldoni
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Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Cold
comfort in the chastity of sorrow,
Having turned in pain towards innocence,
Reaching through the madness for the marrow,
Intent, for once, on yielding all pretence;
Sensing the necessity of love
Though feeling none but hunger well within,
Meaning nothing more than one might prove
As one finds little proof in death and sin:
So it was one night in
Bethlehem.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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