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Song Of Men	A
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How beautiful are the bodies of men	A
The agonists	B
Their hearts beat deep as a brazen gong	C
For their strength's behests	B
Their arms are lithe as a seasoned thong	C
In games or tests	B
When they run or box or swim the long	C
Sea waves crests	B
With their slender legs and their hips so strong	C
And their rounded chests	B
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I know a youth who raises his arms	B
Over his head	D
He laughs and stretches and flouts alarms	B
Of flood or fire	E
He springs renewed from a lusty bed	D
To his youth's desire	E
He drowses for April flames outspread	D
In his soul's attire	E
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The strength of men is for husbandry	F
Of woman's flesh	G
Worker soldier magistrate	D
Of city or realm	H
Artist builder wrestling Fate	D
Lest it overwhelm	H
The brood or the race or the cherished state	D
They sing at the helm	H
When the waters roar and the waves are great	D
And the gale is fresh	G
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There are two miracles women and men	A
Yea four there be	F
A woman's flesh and the strength of a man	I
And God's decree	F
And a babe from the womb in a little span	I
Ere the month be ten	A
Their rapturous arms entwine and cling	J
In the depths of night	D
He hunts for her face for his wondering	J
And her eyes are bright	D
A woman's flesh is soil but the spring	J
Is man's delight	D
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	-
Song Of Women	K
	-
How beautiful is the flesh of women	K
Their throats their breasts	B
My wonder is a flame which burns	B
A flame which rests	B
It is a flame which no wind turns	B
And a flame which quests	B
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I know a woman who has red lips	B
Like coals which are fanned	D
Her throat is tied narcissus it dips	B
From her white rose chin	L
Her throat curves like a cloud to the land	D
Where her breasts begin	L
I close my eyes when I put my hand	D
On her breast's white skin	L
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The flesh of women is like the sky	M
When bare is the moon	N
Rhythm of backs hollow of necks	B
And sea shell loins	B
I know a woman whose splendors vex	B
Where the flesh joins	B
A slope of light and a circumflex	B
Of clefts and coigns	B
She thrills like the air when silence wrecks	B
An ended tune	N
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These are the things not made by hands in the earth	O
Water and fire	E
The air of heaven and springs afresh	G
And love's desire	E
And a thing not made is a woman's flesh	G
Sorrow and mirth	O
She tightens the strings on the lyric lyre	P
And she drips the wine	Q
Her breasts bud out as pink and nesh	G
As buds on the vine	Q
For fire and water and air are flesh	G
And love is the shrine	Q
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Song Of The Human Spirit	D
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How beautiful is the human spirit	D
In its vase of clay	R
It takes no thought of the chary dole	S
Of the light of day	R
It labors and loves as it were a soul	S
Whom the gods repay	R
With length of life and a golden goal	S
At the end of the way	R
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There are souls I know who arch a dome	T
And tunnel a hill	U
They chisel in marble and fashion in chrome	T
And measure the sky	M
They find the good and destroy the ill	U
And they bend and ply	M
The laws of nature out of a will	U
While the fates deny	M
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I wonder and worship the human spirit	D
When I behold	D
Numbers and symbols and how they reach	G
Through steel and gold	D
A harp a battle ship thought and speech	G
And an hour foretold	D
It ponders its nature to turn and teach	G
And itself to mould	D
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The human spirit is God no doubt	D
Is flesh made the word	D
Jesus Beethoven and Raphael	V
And the souls who heard	D
Beyond the rim of the world the swell	V
Of an ocean stirred	D
By a Power on the waters inscrutable	W
There are souls who gird	D
Their loins in faith that the world is well	V
In a faith unblurred	D
How beautiful is the human spirit	D
The flesh made the word	D

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