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ADEQUATE by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY

First Line: A TRUE PHILOSOPHER!'
Last Line: PHILOSOPHER!
Subject(s): PHILOSOPHY & PHILOSOPHERS; POETRY & POETS;

"A true philosopher!"
Glad news to tell --
Had not the gods made her
Half poet as well.

Her mind was no bisque vase --
Just kitchen ware,
Squat; yet the gods would place
Tall dream-flowers there.

Thus bent, these died. Her soul
Laughed out in her.
Half poet she was, but whole
Philosopher!



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