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Love Brown And Bitter

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You know so well how to stay me with vapours     Distilled expertly to that unworthy end;     You know the poses of your body I love best     And that I am cheerful with your head on my breast,     You know you please me by disliking one friend;     You read up what amuses me in the papers.     Who knows me knows I am not of those fools     That gets tired of a woman who is kind to them,     Yet you know not how stifled you render me     By learning me so well, how I long to see     An unpractised girl under your clever phlegm,     A soul not so letter-perfect in the rules.     From the Arabic of John Duncan.

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