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I POSE


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I POSE

by

STELLA BENSON






New York
The Macmillan Company
1916
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Copyright 1916
by the Macmillan Company
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1916.

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              My eyes are girt with outer mists,
          My ears sing shrill—and this I bless,
          My fin