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“And then there came warm mouths and finger-tips

Preying upon me, whence I could not see,

Then⁠ ⁠… a huge face, low-browed, with swollen lips

Crooning, ‘I am not beautiful as she,

But I’m the older love; you shall love me

Far more than Beauty’s self. You have been ours

Always. We are the world’s most ancient powers.’