So let me shine till I become
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Don't take off my white dress!
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I hurry from the lovely earth
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Down into that dark house
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There I'll rest for a brief silence
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Then the fresh gaze opens
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Then I leave the pure shell
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The girdle and the wreath behind
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And those heavenly figures
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They don't ask about man or woman
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And no clothes, no folds
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Surround the transfigured body
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True, I lived without care or toil
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Yet I felt deep pain enough
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From sorrow I aged too early
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Make me forever, forever young again!