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OR this agility chance found Him of all men, unfit As the red-beaked steeds of The Cytheræan for a chain-bit.

The glow of porcelain Brought no reforming sense To his perception Of the social inconsequence.

Thus, if her colour Came against his gaze, Tempered as if It were through a perfect glaze

He made no immediate application Of this to relation of the state To the individual, the month was more temperate Because this beauty had been

..... The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand Burst in upon the porcelain revery: Impetuous troubling Of his imagery. .....

Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, His sense of graduations, Quite out of place amid Resistance to current exacerbations

Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity Gradually led him to the isolation Which these presents place Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination.