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CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE

Poet Analysis

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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