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consider O | |
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woman this | |
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my body. | |
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for it has | |
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lain |
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with empty arms | |
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upon the giddy hills | |
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to dream of you, | |
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approve these | |
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firm unsated |
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eyes | |
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which have beheld | |
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night's speechless carnival | |
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the painting | |
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of the dark |
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with meteors | |
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streaming from playful | |
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immortal hands | |
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the bursting | |
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of the wafted stars |
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(in time to come you shall | |
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remember of this night amazing | |
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ecstasies slowly, | |
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in the glutted | |
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heart fleet |
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flowerterrible | |
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memories | |
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shall | |
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rise, slowly | |
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retrurn upon the |
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red elected lips | |
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scaleless visions) |
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