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As Gongora's Galatea, so in fine<br />
The fair marquise of Verlaine captured me;<br />
And so unto the passion half divine<br />
Was joined a human sensuality;<br />
45All longing and all ardor, the mere sense<br />
And natural vigor; and without a sign<br />
Of stage effect or literature's pretence-<br />
If there is ever a soul sincere-'tis mine.<br />
The ivory tower awakened my desire;<br />
50I longed to enclose myself in selfish bliss,<br />
Yet hungered after space, my thirst on fire<br />
For heaven, from out the shades of my<br />
abyss.<br />
As with the sponge the salt sea saturates<br />
Below the oozing wave, so was my heart,-<br />
55Tender and soft,-bedrenched with bitter<br />
fates<br />
That world and flesh and devil here impart.
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