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Lola Ridge

How should they appraise you,
who walk up close to you
as to a mountain,
each proclaiming his own eyeful
against the other’s eyeful.

Only time
standing well off
shall measure your circumference and height.

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From Sun-Up and Other Poems | 1920

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