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SALOME - ZaunköniG - 10.08.2014 SALOME UPON a salver in her rosy palms She bears the slaughtered prophet's gory head; Proudly, with placid face and queen-like tread — Untroubled by a moment's rising qualms To vex her maiden bosom's happy calms — She goes where azure wreathes of perfume spread From smoking censers, and soft lights are shed, Round halls that throb with tabrets and with shalms. Now, smiling, at her guilty mother's feet She lays her gift. . . . Ay, those stern lips are mute That erstwhile, all unawed before the seat Of kings, did dare proclaim sin's loathsome fruit ; Yet, hapless woman! o'er thee doom-clouds meet, And fateful lightnings of God's anger shoot. |