VOLUME II

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas About 1893

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED
BY THE AUTHOR

29 WAVERLEY PLACE NEW YORK CITY

MCMXVIII

Imprime en Allemagne
Printed in Germany

For he who sins a second time
Wakes a dead soul to pain,
And draws it from its spotted shroud,
And makes it bleed again,
And makes it bleed great gouts of blood,
And makes it bleed in vain.

—The Ballad of Reading Gaol.