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16
The Temptation.

The harmony is far too great,
That governs all her body fair.
For impotence to analyse
And say which note is sweetest there.

O mystic metamorphosis !
My senses into one sense flow—
Her voice makes perfume when she speaks,
Her breath is music faint and low !”