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Слушать(AI)The Lost Dancer
Spatial depths of being
The birth to death
Of feet dancing on earth of sand;
Vibrations of the dance
The sand; the sand, elect,
The dancer.
He can find no
Of magic adequate to
The sand upon his feet, his
Upon his dance, his dance
The diamond body of his being.
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Ha
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