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I: I figured you as nude between / Monotonous earth and dark blue sky. / It made you seem so small and lean / And nameless, / Heavenly Vincentine.
II: I saw you then, as warm as flesh, / Brunette, / But yet not too brunette, / As warm, as clean. / Your dress was green, / Was whited green, / Green Vincentine.
III: Then you came walking, / In a group / Of human others, / Voluble. / Yes: you came walking, / Vincentine. / Yes: you came talking.
IV: And what I knew you felt / Came then. / Monotonous earth I saw become / Illimitable spheres of you, / And that white animal, so lean, / Turned Vincentine, / Turned heavenly Vincentine, / And that white animal, so lean, / Turned heavenly, heavenly Vincentine.