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CREOLE SKETCHES

wrinkle like the petals of a scarlet blossom; —

And as a flower between the leaves of a book, thou shalt be pressed between the marble covers of that ponderous volume in which Death, who is, alas! strong as Love, keeps the weird record of his deeds.