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CDXXVIII
Degas's Three Dancers
Dancers of Delphi

unbroken chords! so worthy of wonders
& prodigious darkness! as white as sand

Roses heroic & soft purples (unkind)
& varnishes of ultratoned others

bones like marble ambered & as old
O, th'days are all dying
dying, and th'dance's undone at once
although they're not all... One!

Dancers of Delphi
descend in images beyond Th'Sun

like human discs wearing out Mind
with their playing, playing

& th'dance's undone!

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