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Which pretty women — the sweet souls! —call Soul.

Ceries it was not Body; he was wellProportion'd, as a poplar or a pole,

A handsome man, that human miracle;

And in each circumstance of love or warHad still preserved his perpendicular.

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Still there was something wanting, as I've said—That undefinable ««7e ne scais quoi^*

Which, for what I know, may of yore have ledTo Homer's Iliad , since it drew to TroyThe Greek Eve , Helen, from the Spartan'shed;

Though on the whole, no doubt, the Dardanboy

Was much inferior to King Menelaus ; —

But thus it is some women will betray us.