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It is better that, as scholars, They should think hard in the dark cuffs Of voluminous cloaks, And shave their heads and bodies.
It might well be that their mistress Is no gaunt fugitive phantom. She might, after all, be a wanton, Abundantly beautiful, eager,
Fecund, From whose being by starlight, on sea-coast, The innermost good of their seeking Might come in the simplest of speech.
It is a good light, then, for those That know the ultimate Plato, Tranquillizing with this jewel The torments of confusion.

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