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302 The exquisite realization of health, O I say now these are not the parts and poems of the
 * body only, but of the Soul,

O I say these are the Soul!



A waits for me—she contains all, nothing is
 * lacking,

Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the
 * moisture of the right man were lacking.

Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies,
 * results, promulgations,

Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery,
 * the semitic milk,

All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the
 * earth,

All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons
 * of the earth,

These are contained in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications
 * of itself.

Without shame the man I like knows and avows the
 * deliciousness of his sex,

Without shame the woman I like knows and avows
 * hers.