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Indifferently well and all at once,
If they were all at hand. Praise heaven they're not."
If they were all at hand. Praise heaven they're not."
"If they were in the world—praise heaven they're not—
And if one Merlin's entertaining eye
Saw two of them, there might be left him then
The sight of no eye to see anything—
Not even the Vivian who is everything,
She being Beauty, Beauty being She,
She being Vivian, and so forever."—
"I'm glad you don't see two of me," she said;
"For there's a whole world yet for you to eat
And drink and say to me before I know
The kind of creature that you see in me.
I'm withering for a little more attention,
But, being woman, I can wait. These cups
And if one Merlin's entertaining eye
Saw two of them, there might be left him then
The sight of no eye to see anything—
Not even the Vivian who is everything,
She being Beauty, Beauty being She,
She being Vivian, and so forever."—
"I'm glad you don't see two of me," she said;
"For there's a whole world yet for you to eat
And drink and say to me before I know
The kind of creature that you see in me.
I'm withering for a little more attention,
But, being woman, I can wait. These cups
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