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Baby Priests / On green sward / Yew-closed / Silk beaver / Rhythm of redemption / Fluttering of Breviaries / Fluted black silk cloaks / Hung square from shoulders / Truncated juvenility / Uniform segregation / Union in severity / Modulation / Intimidation / Pride of misapprehended preparation / Ebony statues training for immobility / Anaemic jawed / Wise saw to one another / Prettily the little ones / Gesticulate benignly upon one another in the sun buzz --
Finger and thumb circles postulate pulpits / Profiles forsworn to Donatello / Munching tall talk vestral shop / Evangelical snobs / Uneasy dreaming / In hermetically-sealed dormitories / Not of me or you Sister Saraminta / Of no more or less / Than the fit of Pope's mitres / It is an old religion that put us in our places / Here am I in lilac print / Preposterously no less than the world flesh and devil / Having no more idea what those are / What I am / Than Baby Priests of what "He" is / or they are --