Song
VII
Pleasure’s Sting
This is the way of Pleasure:
She stings them that despoil her;
And, like the wingèd toiler
Who’s lost her honeyed treasure,
She flies, but leaves her smart
Deep-rankling in the heart.
Song
VII
Pleasure’s Sting
This is the way of Pleasure:
She stings them that despoil her;
And, like the wingèd toiler
Who’s lost her honeyed treasure,
She flies, but leaves her smart
Deep-rankling in the heart.