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CURVES by LOUIS GINSBERG

First Line: OF EVERY GESTURE BEAUTY MAKES
Last Line: THE SILENCE INTO SONG!
Subject(s): BEAUTY;

Of every gesture Beauty makes
I know that I can find,
A curve is like a song unheard
But singing to the mind.

What Beauty utters in her curves,
I always like to mark
In veering of a bird in flight
Or in a fountain's arc.

The haunting crescent of the moon
Arches into a hymn;
The rainbow gestures eloquent
With music of its rim.

But yet, of all the singing curves,
Most lyrical belong
To symmetries of girls that coin
The silence into song!



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