Observer - Saturday, April 20, 1895
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TITS BITS AND TWADDLE
This is the epistle on which Queensberry justifies his odious card inscription. 'To Oscar Wilde. Posing as a ________.' It is written to Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry: 'My own Boy,—Your Sonnet is quite lovely. A marvel! Those red rose-leaf lips of yours are made no less for the music of song than for the madness of kissing.—Yours, with undying love, Oscar Wilde' Wilde explained that when he wrote 'You are the Divine thing I want' to Queensberry's son, he simply meant it as the natural expression of an artist describing a thing of beauty.
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