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For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, c. 1825 (The Pierpont Morgan Library)object 20 (Bentley 20, Erdman 18, Keynes 18)
01 He meets his Saviour in the Grave
02 Some find a Female Garment there
03 And some a Male. woven with care
04 Lest the Sexual Garments sweet
05 Should grow a devouring Winding sheet
06 7 One Dies! Alas! the Living & Dead
07 One is slain & One is fled
08 8 In Vain-glory hatcht & nurst
09 By double Spectres Self Accurst
10 My Son! my Son! thou treatest me
11 But as I have instructed thee
12 9 On the shadows of the Moon
13 Climbing thro Nights highest noon
14 10 In Times Ocean falling drownd
15 In Aged Ignorance profound
16 11 Holy & cold I clipd the Wings
17 Of all Sublunary Things
18 12 And in depths of my Dungeons
19 Closed the Father & the Sons
20 13 But when once I did descry
21 The Immortal Man that cannot Die
22 14 Thro evening shades I haste away
23 To close the Labours of my Day
24 15 The Door of Death I open found
25 And the Worm Weaving in the Ground
26 16 Thou'rt my Mother from the Womb
27 Wife. Sister. Daughter to the Tomb
28 Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife
29 And weeping over the Web of Life
30 18

 

 

 

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