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The Bather.

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I saw him go down to the water to bathe;     He stood naked upon the bank.     His breast was like a white cloud in the heaven,     that catches the sun;     It swelled with the sharp joy of the air.     His legs rose with the spring and curve of young birches;     The hollow of his back caught the blue shadows:     With his head thrown up to the lips of the wind;     And the curls of his forehead astir with the wind.     I would that I were a man, they are so beautiful;     Their bodies are like the bows of the Indians;     They have the spring and the grace of bows of hickory.     I know that women are beautiful, and that I am beautiful;     But the beauty of a man is so lithe and alive and triumphant,     Swift as the night of a swallow and sure as the     pounce of the eagle.

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