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Enfans d' Adam.

The exquisite realization of health,
O I say now these are not the parts and poems of the
body only, but of the Soul,
O I say these are the Soul!




4.



1.A woman waits for me—she contains all, nothing is
lacking,
Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the
moisture of the right man were lacking.

2.Sex contains all,
Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies,
results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery,
the semitic milk,
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,
All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the
earth,
All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons
of the earth,
These are contained in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications
of itself.

3.Without shame the man I like knows and avows the
deliciousness of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows
hers.