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Whose body other ladies well might bear As soul,—yea, which it profanation were For all but you to take as fleshy woof, Being spirit truest proof.
Whose body other ladies well might bear As soul,—yea, which it profanation were For all but you to take as fleshy woof, Being spirit truest proof.
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- Francis Thompson (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 63 · quotation 1 · Francis Thompson · "Manus Animam Pinxit". St. 3.
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