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Summer 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 3 • Poetry |

Girl Passing into a Building

(after Baudelaire)

In mourning black, she seemed delicately tall;
Her long arm, lifting toward the door, could sing
By sad motion like a swan; that wing,
Her white hand, seemed to flutter at the wall.

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