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Lady, by one light only
We look from Alfred's eyes,
We know he saw athwart the wreck
The sign that hangs about your neck,
Where One more than Melchizedek
Is dead and never dies.
--
G. K. Chesterton, in The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), Dedication

 

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