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THE KISS OF FATE
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of my sacred panoplies and once more from a goddess became a woman, and as a woman I sought my couch and wept and wept.
For had I not at the first temptation in my heart broken the law and betrayed the trust of her who, as then I believed, is and was and shall be; her whose veil no mortal man had lifted, the Mother of the sun and all its stars?