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EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE) by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER

First Line: A WEARIED EARTH PRESCRIBES THE STALE DESPAIR
Last Line: "THE SIN OF ""CHARMING TIME""—""DO COME AGAIN""?"
Subject(s): TIME; WEARINESS; FATIGUE;
A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair
Of your proud shoulders; centuries dictate
The folded scarf, the faultless high-reared hair—
How did it happen, pale sophisticate,
That the tamed flesh could mirror, even then,
The sin of "charming time"—"do come again"?



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