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the pavement, or riding the country by road,
 * here then are faces!

Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality, The spiritual prescient face—the always welcome,
 * common, benevolent face,

The face of the singing of music—the grand faces of
 * natural lawyers and judges, broad at the back-top,

The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows
 * —the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's
 * face,

The ugly face of some beautiful Soul, the handsome
 * detested or despised face,

The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the
 * mother of many children,

The face of an amour, the face of veneration, The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock, The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated
 * face,

A wild hawk, his wings clipped by the clipper, A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife
 * of the gelder.

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