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The Morning Shower

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The young lady shows like a thing of light     In the shadowy deeps of a fair window     Grown round with flowers.     She is naked and leans forward, and her flesh like frost     Gathers the light beyond the stone brim.     Only the hair made ready for the day     Suggests the charm of modern clothing.     Her blond eyebrows are the shape of very young moons.     The shower's bright water overflows     In a pure rain.     She lifts one arm into an urgent line,     Cooling her rose fingers     On the grey metal of the spray.     If I could choose my service, I would be the shower     Dashing over her in the sunlight.     From the Chinese of J.S. Ling (1901).

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