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First Line: If I, by wondrous fate, possessed
Last Line: Witch them again to womanhood?
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Women


IF I, by wondrous fate, possessed
The all-transmuting Alkahest,
Famed to resolve the World's Contents
Into their mother elements,
I then might change thee by its powers
Back to the ingredients of the flowers!
But ah, what sovereign sorcery could
Witch them again to Womanhood?





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