“As you are woman, so be lovely:
As you are lovely, so be various,
Merciful as constant, constant as various,
So be mine, as I yours for ever.”

"Pygmalion to Galatea" from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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