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Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre;
Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls—the Mosque of St. Sophia.
And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls,
They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.

— Nathalia Crane Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

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A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.

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Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

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The world is growing gentle,
But few know what she owes
To the understanding lily
And the judgment of the rose.

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The rose has told In one simplicity.
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.

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