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Sheer are her stockings, sheer and the soles grass-stained;

sheer and the soles grass-stained, hers, who traces your poems

beneath her footsteps.  She has named the constellations

and the lands around the great sea, and their cities;

or one of her sisters did (they share the achievement

knowing nothing of selfishness or possession).

Sheer are her stockings, and from that unflawed translucence

the inspiration that emblazons your poems.

Grass-stained are the soles of her strockings, because you asked

her to walk unshod:  believing in you, she does.

Neither rough stone nor sharpened point (stainless, or rusted)

presents itself, nor any impediment.

The lawn receives her stockinged feet wherever she walks,

at evening, and the page receives your poem;

hers because you asked her to enter the poem; therein,

sheer are her stockings, sheer, and the soles grass-stained.

Starward

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