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1865–1945

MORBIDEZZA.

Arthur Symons

WHITE girl, your flesh is lilies Grown‘ neath a frozen moon, So still is The rapture of your swoon

Of whiteness, snow or lilies. The virginal revealment, Your bosom's wavering slope, Concealment,

‘ Neath fainting heliotrope, Of whitest white's revealment, Is like a bed of lilies, A jealous-guarded row,

Whose will is Simply chaste dreams:— but oh, The alluring scent of lilies!

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