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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...ent to shade its fellow shy, Where innocence, not nature, signals nay. The bud of fresh virginity awaits The wooer, and all roseate will she burst: Sh... ...od labours, Beauty’s Queen he serves. Her spacious garden and her garden’s grant She offers in reward for handsome cheer: Choice of the nymphs whose l... ...he fawned and prayed; Sagely the generous Giver circumspect, To choose for grants the egregious, his elect; And ever that imagined succour slew The so...

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