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If I were a poet
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i8 If I were a poet of love, I would make a poem for your eyes as clear as the transparent water in the marble pool. And in my water poem this is what I would say: "I know your eyes do not answer mine, they look and do not question when they look: your clear eyes, your eyes have the calm and good light, the good light of the blossoming world, that I saw one day from the arms of my mother." [53] ...