Quintia is beautiful, many will tell you: to me

Quintia is beautiful, many will tell you: to me
She is white, she is straight, she is tall: to all this I agree,
But does this make her beautiful? though she be found without fault,
Can you find in the whole of her body the least pinch of salt?
But Lesbia is beautiful: hers is the secret alone
To steal from all beauty its beauty, and make it her own.
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