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StainsTheodosia GarrisonThe three ghosts on the lonesome road Spake each to one another, “Whence came that stain about your mouth No lifted hand may cover?” “From eating of forbidden fruit, Brother, my brother.“The three ghosts on the sunless road Spake each to one another, “Whence came that red burn on your foot No dust nor ash may cover?” “I stamped a neighbor’s hearth-flame out, Brother, my brother.“The three ghosts on the windless road Spake each to one another, “Whence came that blood upon your hand No other hand may cover?” “From breaking of a woman’s heart, Brother, my brother.““Yet on the earth clean men we walked, Glutton and Thief and Lover; White flesh and fair it hid our stains That no man might discover.” “Naked the soul goes up to God, Brother, my brother.”

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