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First Line: How is it that my saints from voragine
Last Line: Holding their books toward the nearer stars, / to read, in secret, burning secrecies.....
Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy


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How is it that my saints from Voragine,
SHE
In their embroidered slippers, touch your spleen?
How is it that my saints from Voragine,
He
In their embroidered slippers, touch your spleen?
Old pantaloons, duenna of the spring!
HE
She
Old pantaloons, duenna of the spring!
Imagination is the will of things . . . .
SHE
Thus, on the basis of the common drudge,
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
You dream of women, swathed in indigo,
Thus, on the basis of the common drudge.
Holding their books toward the nearer stars,
You dream of women, swathed in indigo.
To read, in secret, burning secrecies . . . .
Holding their books toward the nearer stars.

To read, in secret, burning secrecies. . . .





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