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Shall in the wildness of the woods prepare;

Thou, ere thou goest, unhappiest of thy kind,

Must leave the habit and the sex behind.

No longer shall thy comely tresses break

In flowing ringlets on thy snowy neck;

Or sit behind thy head, an ample round,

In graceful braids with various ribbon bound:

No longer shall the bodice aptly lac'd

From thy full bosom to thy slender waist,