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TO THE STATUE OF EVE, BY POWERS.
Who that has had of beauteous womanhoodTranslucent visions, in his holiest dreams,
Or when the abstracted, waking mind so teems
With images of beauty, that 't will brood,
In happiest silence, on the fertile mood
So deeply, till each outward thing but seems
Fantastic, while the flashing, inward gleams
Compound a loveliness that would be wooed
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Before thee, with a virgin joy, his soul,
Like a new spirit in Elysium,
Would gush with ecstasy, while from it roll
All memories of dreams or inward sight,
Paled by the fulgence of thy wondrous light.
Florence, February 24th, 1842.
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