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1837–1913

XIX.

Joaquin Miller

Her hands still clasped as if in prayer, Sweet prayer set to silentness; Her sun-browned throat uplifted, bare And beautiful.

Her eager face Illumed with love and tenderness, And all her presence gave such grace, Dark shadowed in her cloud of hair,

That she seemed more than mortal fair.

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