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Epigram On Lady Certainly's Beauty As Inspiration
[to Lady Certainly]
Others might see her as a sacred book
inscribed only to the adept elect
for whom a passing glance or longer look
discloses this unusual aspect
(and, with it, the more manifest effect
described without the least perversity,
in rhymes and measures, as my poems repeat)---
the perfect beauty of her stockinged feet,
shyly revealed in causual shoelessness.
To this end, this part of my poetry
is dedicated---solely to express
(with ardent and abundant evocation)
each random or intended variation
that my desire transforms to inspiration.
Starward
[jlc]
