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I should have loved -- erewhile when Heaven conceived / Each day, some child abnormal and obscene, / Beside a maiden giantess to have lived, / Like a luxurious cat at the feet of a queen;
To see her body flowering with her soul, / And grow, unchained, in awe-inspiring art, / Within the mists across her eyes that stole / To divine the fires entombed within her heart.