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as accustomed, apart. Scattered forth to all sides

is their “flour”— abundant, and bright yellow, pollen—

nothing else than a fine- textured dust that, once rising,

is borne through the air by the currents that follow.

Here let there be semen! Here masculine fluid

— the more purified fraction strained off from the sap—

that is sprinkled nearby on the mouths of the tubes

topping frail, minute, styles on which it is scattered

in lavish amounts! Females’ sexual organs

once watered through conduits, the spouses in public

thus couple together; nor in hearts that are floral,

will embarrassment stir at this kind of love.

65. The poem continues for 12 more stanzas.