Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. But
on her forehead sits a fire:
Half-grown
as yet, a child, and vain–
Of
Demons? fiery-hot to burst
A
higher hand must make her mild,
For
she is earthly of the mind,
I
would the great world grew like thee,
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