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yrtle is about your head,you have bent and caught the spray:each leaf is sharpagainst the lift and furrowof your bound hair. The narcissus has copied the archof your slight breast:your feet are citron-flowers,your knees, cut from white-ash,your thighs are rock-cistus. Your chin lifts straightfrom the hollow of your curved throat.Your shoulders are level--they have melted rare silverfor their breadth.
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