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<p>New page: {{info}}Her velvet sleeves lay motionless&lt;br&gt;And limp against the scarlet dress.&lt;br&gt;A half-said word hung still and thin&lt;br&gt;Between her frozen lips, and in&lt;br&gt;The distance she could hear t...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{info}}Her velvet sleeves lay motionless&lt;br&gt;And limp against the scarlet dress.&lt;br&gt;A half-said word hung still and thin&lt;br&gt;Between her frozen lips, and in&lt;br&gt;The distance she could hear the screams&lt;br&gt;Of men whose adolescent dreams&lt;br&gt;She metamorphosed into sin&lt;br&gt;Converting fantasy to skin.&amp;nbsp;<br /> <br /> No blinking now from bark-brown eyes,&lt;br&gt;But only blankness, while the skies&lt;br&gt;Above the city fill with smoke&lt;br&gt;From burning wives who used to stoke&lt;br&gt;The supper stove and wait for men&lt;br&gt;Who didn't come, allured again&lt;br&gt;By Rahab to the harlot's bed,&lt;br&gt;They'd sworn to see her dead. <br /> <br /> But now, as always, there she stood,&lt;br&gt;As far from burning as she could,&lt;br&gt;And thought about a thousand nights&lt;br&gt;When she had watched the flames and flights&lt;br&gt;Of passion in her patron's play,&lt;br&gt;But kept her heart a mile away. <br /> <br /> She watched until the sun went down&lt;br&gt;And all of Jericho's renown&lt;br&gt;Blew southward to the Salted Sea.&lt;br&gt;Then terrified and fearfully&lt;br&gt;She fell and spread her hands and face&lt;br&gt;Upon the ground, and to abase&lt;br&gt;Herself she scooped the dust and dirt&lt;br&gt;And threw it on her head and skirt&lt;br&gt;Until the last of strength was gone,&lt;br&gt;And then she wept until the dawn,&lt;br&gt;And choked out words repeatedly:&lt;br&gt;&quot;Why was I spared? Why me? Why me?&quot; <br /> <br /> At dawn she heard a Jewish voice:&lt;br&gt;&quot;Tis good to weep and not rejoice;&lt;br&gt;The sorrow first and then the song,&quot;&lt;br&gt;The words of Joshua were strong.&lt;br&gt;&quot;Now rise and go down to the stream,&lt;br&gt;And make you clean this is no dream!&lt;br&gt;The answer to your cry, ‘Why me?':&lt;br&gt;The God of Abraham is free.&lt;br&gt;His sun is rising in the east,&lt;br&gt;The priests have made for us a feast.&lt;br&gt;Go, make you clean and come with me;&lt;br&gt;There is another way to be.&quot;&lt;br&gt;So Rahab made her face to shine&lt;br&gt;And took her place before the shrine. <br /> <br /> And thus may God make all things new&lt;br&gt;As we light advent candle two.</div>

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