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Robert Browning - Heap Cassia, Sandal-Buds and Stripes
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Heap Cassia, sandal-buds and stripes 
  Of labdanum, and aloe-balls, 
Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes 
  From out her hair: such balsam falls 
  Down sea-side mountain pedestals, 
From tree-tops where tired winds are fain, 
Spent with the vast and howling main, 
To treasure half their island-gain. 

And strew faint sweetness from some old 
  Egyptian`s fine worm-eaten shroud 
Which breaks to dust when once unrolled; 
  Or shredded perfume, like a cloud 
  From closet long to quiet vowed, 
With mothed and dropping arras hung, 
Mouldering her lute and books among, 
As when a queen, long dead, was young.
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