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 14 YEUX GLAUQUES

LADSTONE was still respected, When John Ruskin produced "Kings Treasuries"; Swinburne And Rossetti still abused.

Fœtid Buchanan lifted up his voice When that faun's head of hers Became a pastime for Painters and adulterers.

The Burne-Jones cartons Have preserved her eyes; Still, at the Tate, they teach Cophetua to rhapsodize;

Thin like brook-water, With a vacant gaze. The English Rubaiyat was still-born In those days.

The thin, clear gaze, the same Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd fac Questing and passive.... "Ah, poor Jenny's case"...

Bewildered that a world Shows no surprise At her last maquero's Adulteries.