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THE WIZARD'S CRUX by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: IF I, BY WONDROUS FATE, POSSESSED
Last Line: WITCH THEM AGAIN TO WOMANHOOD?
Subject(s): WOMEN;
IF I, by wondrous fate, possessed
The all-transmuting Alkahest,
Famed to resolve the World's Contents
Into their mother elements,
I then might change thee by its powers
Back to the ingredients of the flowers!
But ah, what sovereign sorcery could
Witch them again to Womanhood?



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