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gold and shadow brown, her glorious hair

Seemeth to hold faint sunbeams tangled where

Its mazy ringlets cluster o'er a brow

Built low and broad, which shines as white as snow.

Rose-tinted cheek, straight nose, and pouting mouth,

Breath laden with all spices of the south,

Whose lips' red luscious ripeness draw my soul

Out of my breast. Her form's distracting whole

Perfection from the tiny close-set ear

O'er shapely neck and bosom which appear

Smooth swelling fields to court an amorous kiss

(Ah, what a banquet for my soul were this),

Melting in gracious lines t'wards hands and feet

Fashioned Titania-like for any faery meet—

No fault; no flaw; Love spreads a cloudless sky

In her unfathomable eyes, till I,

Bending my lips to hers, become, alas, aware

That in her chin deceit lurks dimpled there. Rh