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Preludes	A
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I The Nursling of Civility	B
Lo how the woman once was woo'd	C
Forth leapt the savage from his lair	D
And fell'd her and to nuptials rude	C
He dragg'd her bleeding by the hair	D
From that to Chloe's dainty wiles	E
And Portia's dignified consent	F
What distance But these Pagan styles	E
How far below Time's fair intent	F
Siegfried sued Kriemhild Sweeter life	G
Could Love's self covet Yet 'tis sung	H
In what rough sort he chid his wife	G
For want of curb upon her tongue	H
Shall Love where last I leave him halt	I
Nay none can fancy or foresee	B
To how strange bliss may time exalt	I
This nursling of civility	B
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II The Foreign Land	J
A woman is a foreign land	J
Of which though there he settle young	H
A man will ne'er quite understand	J
The customs politics and tongue	H
The foolish hie them post haste through	K
See fashions odd and prospects fair	D
Learn of the language How d'ye do	K
And go and brag they have been there	D
The most for leave to trade apply	L
For once at Empire's seat her heart	M
Then get what knowledge ear and eye	L
Glean chancewise in the life long mart	M
And certain others few and fit	N
Attach them to the Court and see	B
The Country's best its accent hit	N
And partly sound its polity	B
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III Disappointment	O
The bliss which woman's charms bespeak	P
I've sought in many found in none	Q
In many 'tis in vain you seek	P
What can be found in only one	Q
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The Friends	R
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I	L
Frank's long dull letter lying by	L
The gay sash from Honoria's waist	S
Reproach'd me passion spared a sigh	L
For friendship without fault disgraced	S
How should I greet him how pretend	T
I felt the love he once inspired	U
Time was when either in his friend	T
His own deserts with joy admired	U
We took one side in school debate	V
Like hopes pursued with equal thirst	W
Were even bracketed by Fate	V
Twin Wranglers seventh from the First	W
And either loved a lady's laugh	X
More than all music he and I	L
Were perfect in the pleasant half	X
Of universal charity	B
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II	L
From pride of likeness thus I loved	Y
Him and he me till love begot	Z
The lowliness which now approved	A2
Nothing but that which I was not	B2
Blest was the pride of feeling so	C2
Subjected to a girl's soft reign	D2
She was my vanity and oh	C2
All other vanities how vain	D2
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III	L
Frank follow'd in his letter's track	E2
And set my guilty heart at ease	F2
By echoing my excuses back	E2
With just the same apologies	F2
So he had slighted me as well	G2
Nor was my mind disburthen'd less	H2
When what I sought excuse to tell	G2
He of himself did first confess	H2
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IV	X
Each rapturous praised his lady's worth	I2
He eloquently thus Her face	J2
Is the summ'd sweetness of the earth	I2
Her soul the glass of heaven's grace	J2
To which she leads me by the hand	J
Or briefly all the truth to say	K2
To you who briefly understand	J
She is both heaven and the way	K2
Displeasures and resentments pass	L2
Athwart her charitable eyes	M2
More fleetingly than breath from glass	L2
Or truth from foolish memories	F2
Her heart's so touch'd with others' woes	N2
She has no need of chastisement	J
Her gentle life's conditions close	O2
Like God's commandments with content	J
And make an aspect calm and gay	K2
Where sweet affections come and go	C2
Till all who see her smile and say	K2
How fair and happy that she's so	C2
She is so lovely true and pure	P2
Her virtue virtue so endears	C2
That often when I think of her	Q2
Life's meanness fills mine eyes with tears	C2
You paint Miss Churchill Pray go on	R2
She's perfect and if joy was much	S2
To think her nature's paragon	R2
'Tis more that there's another such	S2
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V	X
Praising and paying back their praise	C2
With rapturous hearts t'ward Sarum Spire	T2
We walk'd in evening's golden haze	C2
Friendship from passion stealing fire	Q2
In joy's crown danced the feather jest	J
And parting by the Deanery door	U2
Clasp'd hands less shy than words confess'd	J
We had not been true friends before	U2

Coventry Patmore

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