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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 38
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She lifts the eyelids amethyst,
And looks from half-shut eyes,
Gleaming with miracles of mist,
Gray shadows on blue skies ;
And on her whole face sunrise-kissed,
Child-wonderment most wise.
The whitest arms in all the earth
Blush from the lilac bed.
Like a young star even at its birth
Shines out the golden head.
Sad violets are the maiden girth,
Pale flames night-canopied.
O gentlest lady ! Lift those eyes,
And curl those lips to kiss !
Melt my young boyhood in thy sighs,
A subtler Salmacis !
Hide, in that peace, these ecstasies ;
In that fair fountain, this !
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