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Where The Virgins Are Soft As The Roses They Twine, And All Save The Spirit Of Man Is Divine?
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all save the spirit of man is divine?
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
-- The Bride of Abydos, Canto i, Stanza 1
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Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray?
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