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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REPLICAS, by LETITIA STOCKETT
First Line: Appraising, cool, I walk with you
Last Line: Figures of the dust.
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
First Line: Appraising, cool, I walk with you
Last Line: Figures of the dust.
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
Appraising, cool, I walk with you
Through Rodin's gallery and know
That replicas lie hid in me
Mocking this marble show.
I match the passion of the Kiss,
The long slow rapture, the immense
Surrender, just and exquisite
Of ardent innocence.
The Soul and body -- tortured form
Striving forever to escape
The brute -- I ride the mountain peaks
A hoofed and trampling shape.
And you in me and I in you
Lie in the Hand of God upthrust
Between His finger and His thumb,
Figures of the dust.
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