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at the ample and springy start of the service cycle,
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when there would develop and hang in
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the sun for a second a vital web of balance between toed foot,
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pristine armpit, burnished arm, and far back-flung
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racket as she smiled up with gleaming teeth at the small globe
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suspended so high in the zenith of the powerful and graceful cosmos
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she had created for the express purpose of falling upon it with a clean,
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resounding crack of her golden whip.
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It had that serve of hers beauty, directness, youth,
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a classical purity of trajectory and was, despite its spanking pace,
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fairly easy to return,
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having as it did no twist or sting to its long, elegant hop."