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Belly was distended,

So long and equably what since is found

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?

With my stomach wasting.

With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.

In the picture I have of you,

The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,

Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.

Me handle not nor spare not;

There was so much to love, I could not love it all;

To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,

And death, and thoughts of these—for whom was built

Sweeter tastes the wine to me