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OSCAR WILDE
HIS LIFE AND CONFESSIONS
BY
FRANK HARRIS
VOLUME II
[Illustration: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas About 1893]
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
29 WAVERLEY PLACE
NEW YORK CITY
MCMXVIII
Imprime en Allemagne
Printed in Germany
For he who sins a second time
Wakes a dead soul to pain,
And draws it from its spotted shroud,
And makes it bleed again,
And makes it bleed great gouts of blood,
And makes it bleed in vain.
--_The Ballad of Reading Gaol._
Copyright, 1916,
BY FRANK HARRIS
BOOK II