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 24 —Given, that is, his urge To convey the relation Of eye-lid and cheek-bone By verbal manifestation;

To present the series Of curious heads in medallion—

He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, The wide-banded irises And botticellian sprays implied In their diastasis;

Which anæsthesis, noted a year late, And weighed, revealed his great affect, (Orchid), mandate Of Eros, a retrospect.

... Mouths biting empty air, The still stone dogs, Caught in metamorphosis were, Left him as epilogues.