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WHEN HE REMOVED MY GARMENTS
When he removed my garments,
because my arms could not cover my breasts,
1 clung to him tightly to hide my shame.
But his hand explored below my hips,
what could 1 do except swoon, saved
thus in the drowning sea of my shame?
- VALLANA
Pala poet (9th c. A.D.)
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