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" On the porch, green-shuttered, cool,
Asleep is Bertram, that bronze boy,
Who, having wound her around a spool,
Sends her spinning like a toy
Out to the garden, all alone,
To sit and weep on a bench of stone.

Soon the purple dark will bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose,
And Jane lie down with others soon
Naked to the naked moon. "

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Donald Justice quote : On the porch, green-shuttered, cool,<br />Asleep is Bertram, that bronze boy,<br />Who, having wound her around a spool,<br />Sends her spinning like a toy<br />Out to the garden, all alone,<br />To sit and weep on a bench of stone.<br /><br />Soon the purple dark will bruise<br />Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,<br />And the little Cupid lose<br />Eyes and ears and chin and nose,<br />And Jane lie down with others soon<br />Naked to the naked moon.