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1   WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan;
Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip      only one!
Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from      a little seed sown!
Resting the grass amid and upon,
To be lean'd, and to lean on.
2  Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes —      masculine trades, sights and sounds;
Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music;
Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys      of the great organ.