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"From my very first glimpse, lakeside, of him:

"long-haired (what a mane of curls), slender of limb,

"and almost always shoeless---bare of foot---

"Love for him, for Seth, immediately put

"itself, gently, into my lonely soul.

"Despite the hatred of the Pharisees

"(who treat such love as some social disease),

"I wanted Seth---I wanted him in full;

"I longed to enter his intimacy's

"pleasure; of all those who dwell in Galilee's

"precincts, Seth is the most desirable;

"and of all the young men here, most loveable.

"He asked me to go steady, yesterday;

"with me, I promise, he shall have his way."