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Dance Figure

For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
 
Dark-eyed,
O woman of my dreams,
Ivory sandalled,
There is none like thee among the dancers,
None with swift feet.
I have not found thee in the tents,
In the broken darkness.
I have not found thee at the well-head
Among the women with pitchers.
Thine arms are as a young sapling under the bark;
Thy face as a river with lights.
 
White as an almond are thy shoulders;
As new almonds stripped from the husk.
They guard thee not with eunuchs;
Not with bars of copper.
 
Gilt turquoise and silver are in the place of thy rest.
A brown robe, with threads of gold woven in
    patterns, hast thou gathered about thee,
O Nathat-Ikanaie, 'Tree-at-the-river’.
 
As a rillet among the sedge are thy hands upon me;
Thy fingers a frosted stream.
 
Thy maidens are white like pebbles;
Their music about thee!
 
There is none like thee among the dancers;
None with swift feet.
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