A perpetual memory and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein |
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The Veil
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The Veil
ου πολυ μοι το μεταξυ γενησεται: αλλ' επι λεπτα
στερνα πεσων ψυχης κεισομαι εγγυτατω.
When first I saw her beauty bare
She seemed a very slender Venus,
But now I love to have her spare
And feel the veil so thin between us,
For when we breast to breast entwine
Her soul more nearly lies with mine.
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