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Japanese Eyes

Here no Winters or Autumns are
Nor oceans of sapphire or jade
Only deep night without a star
As if before the world was made,

My face is palely glimmering
From where her deepest soul lies,
Within the burnished bronze ring
Surrounding her Japanese eyes.

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