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  • Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

    Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174