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I	A
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Mr Styrax	B
Mr Hecatomb Styrax the owner of a large estate and of large muscles	B
A 'blue' and a climber of mountains has married at the age of	C
He being at that age a virgin	D
The term Virgo' being made male in mediaeval latinity	E
His ineptitudes	B
Have driven his wife from one religious excess to another	F
She has abandoned the vicar	F
For he was lacking in vehemence	B
She is now the high priestess	B
Of a modern and ethical cult	E
And even now Mr Styrax	B
Does not believe in asthetics	B
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His brother has taken to gipsies	B
But the son in law of Mr H Styrax	B
Objects to perfumed cigarettes	B
In the parlance of Niccolo Machiavelli	G
Thus things proceed in their circle'	G
And thus the empire is maintained	E
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II	A
Clara	H
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At sixteen she was a potential celebrity	G
With a distaste for caresses	B
She now writes to me from a convent	E
Her life is obscure and troubled	E
Her second husband will not divorce her	F
Her mind is as ever uncultivated	E
And no issue presents itself	I
She does not desire her children	J
Or any more children	J
Her ambition is vague and indefinite	E
She will neither stay in nor come out	E
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III	A
Soir e	G
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Upon learning that the mother wrote verses	B
And that the father wrote verses	B
And that the youngest son was in a publisher's office	B
And that the friend of the second daughter was undergoing a novel	G
The young American pilgrim	K
Exclaimed	E
'This is a darn'd clever bunch '	-
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IV	I
Sketch b	G
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At the age of	I
Its home mail is still opened by its maternal parent	E
And its office mail may be opened by	A
its parent of the opposite gender	F
It is an officer	F
and a gentleman	J
and an architect	E
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V	G
'Nodier raconte '	-
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A t a friend of my wife's there is a photograph	I
A faded pale brownish photograph	I
Of the times when the sleeves were large	L
Silk stiff and large above the lacertus	B
That is the upper arm	M
And d collet '	-
It is a lady	G
She sits at a harp	N
Playing	O
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And by her left foot in a basket	E
Is an infant aged about months	B
The infant beams at the parent	E
The parent re beams at its offspring	O
The basket is lined with satin	J
There is a satin like bow on the harp	N
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And in the home of the novelist	E
There is a satin like bow on an harp	N
You enter and pass hall after hall	G
Conservatory follows conservatory	G
Lilies lift their white symbolical cups	B
Whence their symbolical pollen has been excerpted	E
Near them I noticed an harp	N
And the blue satin ribbon	J
And the copy of Hatha Yoga'	O
And the neat piles of unopened unopening books	B
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And she spoke to me of the monarch	P
And of the purity of her soul	G
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VI	A
Stele	G
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After years of continence	B
he hurled himself into a sea of six women	J
Now quenched as the brand of Meleagar	G
he lies by the poluphloisboious sea coast	E
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SISTE VIATOR	G
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VII	A
I Vecchii	P
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They will come no more	G
The old men with beautiful manners	B
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II tait comme un tout petit gar on	Q
With his blouse full of apples	B
And sticking out all the way round	E
Blagueur 'Con gli occhi onesti e tardi '	-
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And he said	E
h Abelard ' as if the topic	O
Were much too abstruse for his comprehension	J
And he talked about 'the Great Mary'	G
And said Mr Pound is shocked at my levity '	-
When it turned out he meant Mrs Ward	E
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And the other was rather like my bust by Gaudier	G
Or like a real Texas colonel	G
He said 'Why flay dead horses	B
'There was once a man called Voltaire '	-
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And he said they used to cheer Verdi	G
In Rome after the opera	G
And the guards couldn't stop them	R
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And that was an anagram for Vittorio	G
Emanuele Re D' Italia	G
And the guards couldn't stop them	R
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Old men with beautiful manners	B
Sitting in the Row of a morning	O
Walking on the Chelsea Embankment	E
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VIII	A
Ritratto	E
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And she said	E
' You remember Mr Lowell	G
'He was your ambassador here '	-
And I said 'That was before I arrived '	-
And she said	E
'He stomped into my bedroom	S
By that time she had got on to Browning	O
' stomped into my bedroom	S
'And said 'Do I	A
' 'I ask you Do I	A
' 'Care too much for society dinners '	-
'And I wouldn't say that he didn't	E
'Shelley used to live in this house '	-
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She was a very old lady	E
I never saw her again	T

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