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Archaic torso of Apollo.(Poem)
We never knew his extraordinary head, with swelling stone eyeballs. Yet even broken, his torso still glows like a lighted lantern in which his gaze, damped down, not out, not dead, keeps burning on. Or else the breast's bent bow could never dazzle you, nor yet a smile run ruffling through the loins' slight subtle flexion to ...
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