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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Religious · #1295245

A short poem about chastity

When passion, ardent, shows it luster,
Conscience, help us choose:
Dispelling, budding, now to lust, or
For Another, now to lose.

When passion, ardent, shows its luster,
Conscience, help us lose
The deviant, sincere, we now lust for;
And all desire to choose.

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