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POMEGRANATES by PAUL VALERY

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First Line: HARD POMEGRANATES SUNDERED
Last Line: ITS SECRET ARCHITECTURE.
Subject(s): POMEGRANATES;

Hard pomegranates sundered
By excess of your seeds,
You make me think of mighty brows
Aburst with their discoveries!

If the suns you underwent,
O pomegranates severed,
Wrought your essence with the pride
To rend your ruby segments,

And if the dry gold of your shell
At instance of a power
Cracks in crimson gems of juice,

This luminous eruption
Sets a soul to dream upon
Its secret architecture.



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