My friend deserves much better; still, he clings,

Against all warnings, to that bastard's love,

And whether feighted or genuine, it brings

Destruction. Now the demon's poised shove

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Its victim from the precipice! Oh, now,

He's lost his balance, inches fr…

I'm edging closer daily to despair

From which, I doubt I ever can escape.

I brood on all the times I wasn't there

When he was suffering cruelty and rape

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I'd never known, 'til later, how unfair

His lover's treatment was--how mean, how vicious.

My friend …