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Dedication


Mine bleach'd white beauty, mine affair:
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Settle me at thine lily-spot,
And grip me with its gentl'st hug;
Thine snow-blanch'd limbs wrapt o'er mine trunk,
Thine warmèd flesh around, stark-bare,
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That I might melt and praise this lot,
Deliver me a wint'ry kiss.







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