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 CUPIDO

THE PAST

debt is paid,

The verdict said,

The Furies laid,

The plague is stayed.

All fortunes made;

Turn the key and bolt the door,

Sweet is death forevermore.

Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,

Nor murdering hate, can enter in.