"And thin and feeble and worn out; her hair
Is ragged; bleared her deep-set eyes; her face
Dry-lipped and pale; her jowls besmeared with dirt;
Her entrails one can see through her thin skin;
Marrowless, her bones stick from her flanks;
She has no belly but the cavity
Where it should be- it is a pit so deep
Her very breasts seem pendent from her spine.
Her knees lack roundness, and her hollow toes
And heels as lean are. angular and thin,
As if there were no flesh upon her bones,
So tightly are they pinched in meagerness."
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