Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE


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First Line: You cannot retrieve
Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature


You cannot retrieve
The lost virginity of Eve.
Chaste you may remain
Only by being less than all you are,
An instance of her.

Nor can your fall impair
Nature's virginity, still inviolate
Through her millennia of little deaths.





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