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Through love? No; the woman! that visible woman

Men usually know.--None knows how we know

Of an innermore beauty! that part of the human

We designate character.--Look at the bow

Of the moon that is new; that bears in its crescent

A world.--So the flesh gleams the slenderest line

Of soul; that is love; the unevanescent,

Making the mortal immortal, divine.

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