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Then a beautiful vase of a maid I saw and by it standing in the gloom and shade was another of a man! Both were covered deep in dust; it was a lesson thundered back to earth, how both of them from lust had died and destroyed the purpose of their lives. And on a column reaching high these words burst forth in fiercest flame: "The curse of life is lust of sex and the committing of acts unlawful and unfit."