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12.

AGES and ages, returning at intervals,

Undestroyed, wandering immortal,

Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly
sweet,

I, chanter of Adamic songs,

Through the new garden, the West, the great cities,
calling,

Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering
these, offering myself,

Bathing myself, bathing my songs in sex,

Offspring of my loins.

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