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THE ENCOUNTER by EZRA POUND

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First Line: ALL THE WHILE THEY WERE TALKING THE NEW MORALITY
Last Line: OF A JAPANESE PAPER NAPKIN.
All the while they were talking the new morality
Her eyes explored me.
And when I arose to go
Her fingers were like the tissue
Of a Japanese paper napkin.



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