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VI

O bright, bronzed maidens of the Sun!
So fairer far to look upon
Than curtains of King Solomon,
Or Kedar's tents, or any one,
Or any thing beneath the Sun!
What followed then? What has been done,
And said, and writ, and read, and sung?
What will be writ and read again,
While love is life and life remain,
While maids will heed and men have tongue?