For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers
As synonyms that should
The same deficiency of
Or shelter) stand as wide
As love from lies, or truth from art.
Lovers without reproach will
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess
She mounts her lion among men.
The nude are bold, the nude are
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious
Of scorn at those of naked skin.
The naked, therefore, who
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometimes nude!
