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Emma Lazarus

“See’st thou o’er my shoulders falling,
  Snake-like ringlets waving free?
Have no fear, for they are twisted
  To allure thee unto me.”

Thus she spake, the gentle dove,
  Listen to thy plighted love:—
“Ah, how long I wait, until
  Sweetheart cometh back (she said)
Laying his caressing hand
  Underneath my burning head.”

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From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Vol.II, Jewish Poems: Translations

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