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Rh Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land—I them
 * chanting,

The overture lightly sounding—the strain anticipating, The welcome nearness—the sight of the perfect
 * body,

The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless
 * on his back lying and floating,

The female form approaching—I, pensive, love-flesh
 * tremulous, aching;

The slave's body for sale—I, sternly, with harsh
 * voice, auctioneering,

The divine list, for myself or you, or for any one,
 * making,

The face—the limbs—the index from head to foot,
 * and what it arouses,

The mystic deliria—the madness amorous—the utter
 * abandonment,

Hark, close and still, what I now whisper to you, I love you—you entirely possess me, O I wish that you and I escape from the rest, and go
 * utterly off—O free and lawless,

Two hawks in the air—two fishes swimming in the
 * sea not more lawless than we;)

The furious storm through me careering—I passionately
 * trembling,

The oath of the inseparableness of two together—of
 * the woman that loves me, and whom I love more
 * than my life—That oath swearing,

(O I willingly stake all, for you! O let me be lost, if it must be so! O you and I—what is it to us what the rest do or think? Rh