Leitura Matinal -41

Dante Gabriel Rossetti sabia-a toda.
Ora vejam:

VAIN VIRTUES

What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell?
None of the sins,-but this and that fair deed
Which a soul sin at lenght could supersede.
These yet are virgins, whom death´s timely knell
Might once have sainted; whom the fiends compel
Together now, in snake-bound shuddering sheaves
Of anguish, while the scorching bridegroom leaves
Their refuse maidenhood abominable.

Night sucks them down, the garbage of the pit,
Whose names, half entered in the book of Life,
Were God's desire at noon. And their hair
And eyes sink last, the Torturer designs no whit
To gaze, but, yearning, waits his worthier wife,
The Sin still blithe on earth that sent them there.