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Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust / That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss, / But that had once from Life received all this / Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must / From fullness of past knowledge dwell alone, / A thing apart, a parable in stone.