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MONNA LISA by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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First Line: SHE GAVE ME ALL THAT WOMAN CAN
Last Line: MAKES IT SEEM SWEETER TO BE HERS!
Subject(s): MONA LISA;
SHE gave me all that woman can,
Nor her soul's nunnery forego,
A confidence that man to man
Without remorse can never show.

Rare art, that can the sense refine
Till not a pulse rebellious stirs,
And, since she never can be mine,
Makes it seem sweeter to be hers!



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