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/ "Teach me the wisdom of thy beauty, pray, / That, being thus wise, I may aspire to see / What beauty is, whence, why, and in what way / Immortal, yet how mortal utterly: / For, shrinking loveliness, thy brow of day / Pleads plaintive as a prayer, anemone.
/ "Teach me wood-wisdom, I am petulant: / Thou hast the wildness of a Dryad's eyes, / The shyness of an Oread's, wild plant: -- / Behold the bashful goddess where she lies / Distinctly delicate! -- inhabitant / Ambrosial-earthed, star-cousin of the skies.