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 * There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air,
 * A faery city, 'neath the potent rule
 * Of Emperor Elfinan; famed ev'rywhere
 * For love of mortal women, maidens fair,
 * Whose lips were solid, whose soft hands were made
 * Of a fit mould and beauty, ripe and rare.
 * To pamper his slight wooing, warm yet staid:

He lov'd girls smooth as shades, but hated a mere shade.


 * And all the priesthood of his city wept,
 * For ruin and dismay they well foresaw.
 * If impious prince no bound or limit kept,
 * And Faery Zendervester overstept;