<h3><SPAN name="Interior_Life" id="Interior_Life"></SPAN>Interior Life</h3>
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A long while I dwelt beneath vast porticoes,<br/>
While the ocean-suns bathed with a thousand fires,<br/>
And which with their great and majestic spires,<br/>
At eventide looked like basaltic grottoes.<br/>
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The billows, in rolling depictured the skies,<br/>
And mingled, in solemn and mystical strain,<br/>
The all-mighteous chords of their luscious refrain<br/>
With the sun-set's colours reflexed in mine eyes.<br/>
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It is there that I lived in exalted calm,<br/>
In the midst of the azure, the splendour, the waves,<br/>
While pregnant with perfumes, naked slaves<br/>
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Refreshed my forehead with branches of palm,<br/>
Whose gentle and only care was to know<br/>
The secret that caused me to languish so.<br/></p>
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