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| She was like a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion - spotted, golden , green and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; And full of silver moons, that , as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed, Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries-- So rainbowed-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. |
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