The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1679
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SAINT, forsooth! While brown Dolores Squats outside the Convent bank With Sanchicha, telling stories, Steeping tresses in the tank, Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horse-hairs, --Can’t I see his dead eye glow, Bright as ‘twere a Barbary corsair’s? (That is, if he’d let it show!)