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INTERIOR by PAUL VALERY

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First Line: WITH NARROW EYES BELOW SOFT CHAINS, A SLAVE
Last Line: WITHOUT THE APPARATUS OF PURE THOUGHT.
Subject(s): INTROSPECTION;
With narrow eyes below soft chains, a slave
Empties my vases, in the mirror dives,
Extends to the secret bed her pure, white hands:
Within these walls a modest woman moves
Who in my reverie cuts through my vision,
Never once endangering abstraction,
As by a simple glass the sun is caught
Without the apparatus of pure thought.



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