And silent nuns tread the familiar stairs.
Within the peach-clad walls that old outlaw,
The Roman wolf, scratches with privy paw.
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O Love, I complain,
Complain of thee often,
Because thou dost soften
My being to pain:
And silent nuns tread the familiar stairs.
Within the peach-clad walls that old outlaw,
The Roman wolf, scratches with privy paw.
O Love, I complain,
Complain of thee often,
Because thou dost soften
My being to pain: