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O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

                fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
,has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

      beauty                 .how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
                (but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

                thou answerest

them only with

                                spring)

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The Sun Is but a Morning Star. Anthology of American Literature. Edited by Albena Bakratcheva. Varna: LiterNet, 2008-2010