The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Oscar Wilde
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby gray;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who loo...
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