AHOLIBAH

I am the queen Aholibah.

My lips kissed dumb the word of _Ah_

Sighed on strange lips grown sick thereby.

God wrought to me my royal bed;

The inner work thereof was red,

The outer work was ivory.

My mouth's heat was the heat of flame

For lust towards the kings that came

With horsemen riding royally.

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