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Earth! My Likeness!

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

EARTH! MY LIKENESS!

EARTH! my likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric  
 there, I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible  
 to burst forth; For an athlete is enamour'd of me—and I of him, But toward him there is something fierce and terrible  
 in me, eligible to burst forth, I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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