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A still dark joy! A sudden face! / Cold daylight, footsteps, cries! / The temple's naked, shining space, / Aglare with judging eyes!
All in abandoned guilty hair, / With terror-pallid lips, / To vulgar scorn her honour bare, / To lewd remarks and quips,