Oscar Wilde: The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers ther

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is — Oscar Wilde

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.

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