I.

To heap in them your heavinesses fair,

By double, frugal, savoury breasts embossed,

The rosy skin by which your arms are glossed,

Your belly's curly fleece of reddish hair,

My verses I will weave as, at their doors

Seated, old basket-makers curb and twine

White and brown osiers in a clear design,

Copying enamelled tesselated floors,

Until your body's gold within them teems;

And like a garland I will wear them, spun

In massive blonde heaps on my head, in the sun,

Haughtily proud, as a strong man beseems.

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