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To A Creole Lady

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In a perfumed land caressed by the sun     I found, beneath the trees crimson canopy,     palms from which languor pours on ones     eyes, the veiled charms of a Creole lady.     Her hue pale, but warm, a dark-haired enchantress,     she shows in her necks poise the noblest of manners:     slender and tall, she strides by like a huntress,     tranquil her smile, her eyes full of assurance.     If you traveled, my Lady, to the land of true glory,     the banks of the Seine, or green Loire, a Beauty     worthy of gracing the manors of olden days,     youd inspire, among arbours shadowy secrets,     a thousand sonnets in the hearts of the poets,     whom, more than your blacks, your vast eyes would enslave.

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