I arose and Marigold lay down with Curious Iris   Cherry gave to Victor her prudence and her virus   FOr the sake of purity I can recall the time and place   Between wisdom and murder she gave up her   Immaculate face      My poor belated chastity fell foul   of grown up games   With false and lovely modesty   I can recall the names I'll miss   In the particle of me that cares for this   I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss      Patience has her virtue still but every grace   must have its price   I through some felicity may spin a tale   of constant vice   I took my better nature out, drowned it   in the babbling stream   Took the blossom of my youth   and blew it all to smithereens      My poor belated chastity fell foul   of grown up games   With false and lovely modesty   I can recall the names I'll miss   In the particle of me that cares for this   I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss      And if you still don't like my song   Then you can just go to hell   I don't care if I'm right or wrong or if   my typewriter can spell   But I cannot promise you I've said "goodbye"   to childish things   There's still some pretty insults left   and such sport in threatening      My poor belated chastity fell foul   of grown up games   With false and lovely modesty   I can recall the names I'll miss   In the particle of me that cares for this   I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss      And for the sake of clarity   They are "faith", "hope", and "charity"   In the particle of me that cares for this   I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss