Pippa Passes: Part I: Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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Sebald | A |
sings | B |
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Let the watching lids wink | C |
Day's a blaze with eyes think | C |
Deep into the night drink | C |
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Ottima | D |
Night Such may be your Rhine land nights perhaps | E |
But this blood red beam through the shutter's chink | C |
We call such light the morning let us see | F |
Mind how you grope your way though How these tall | G |
Naked geraniums straggle Push the lattice | H |
Behind that frame Nay do I bid you Sebald | A |
It shakes the dust down on me Why of course | I |
The slide bolt catches Well are you content | J |
Or must I find you something else to spoil | K |
Kiss and be friends my Sebald Is 't full morning | L |
Oh don't speak then | M |
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Sebald | A |
Ay thus it used to be | F |
Ever your house was I remember shut | N |
Till mid day I observed that as I strolled | O |
On mornings through the vale here country girls | P |
Were noisy washing garments in the brook | Q |
Hinds drove the slow white oxen up the hills | R |
But no your house was mute would ope no eye | S |
And wisely you were plotting one thing there | T |
Nature another outside I looked up | U |
Rough white wood shutters rusty iron bars | V |
Silent as death blind in a flood of light | W |
Oh I remember and the peasants laughed | X |
And said The old man sleeps with the young wife | Y |
This house was his this chair this window his | Z |
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Ottima | D |
Ah the clear morning I can see St Mark's | A2 |
That black streak is the belfry Stop Vicenza | A2 |
Should lie there's Padua plain enough that blue | B2 |
Look o'er my shoulder follow my finger | C2 |
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Sebald | A |
Morning | L |
It seems to me a night with a sun added | D2 |
Where's dew where's freshness That bruised plant I bruised | E2 |
In getting through the lattice yestereve | Y |
Droops as it did See here's my elbow's mark | F2 |
I' the dust o' the sill | G2 |
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Ottima | D |
Oh shut the lattice pray | H2 |
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Sebald | A |
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Let me lean out I cannot scent blood here | I2 |
Foul as the morn may be | F |
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There shut the world out | J2 |
How do you feel now Ottima There curse | A2 |
The world and all outside Let us throw off | Y |
This mask how do you bear yourself Let's out | J2 |
With all of it | K2 |
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Ottima | D |
Best never speak of it | K2 |
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Sebald | A |
Best speak again and yet again of it | K2 |
Till words cease to be more than words His blood | D2 |
For instance let those two words mean His blood | D2 |
And nothing more Notice I'll say them now | L2 |
His blood | D2 |
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Ottima | D |
Assuredly if I repented | M2 |
The deed | N2 |
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Sebald | A |
Repent Who should repent or why | S |
What puts that in your head Did I once say | H2 |
That I repented | M2 |
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Ottima | D |
No I said the deed | N2 |
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Sebald | A |
The deed and the event just now it was | A2 |
Our passion's fruit the devil take such cant | O2 |
Say once and always Luca was a wittol | G2 |
I am his cut throat you are | P2 |
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Ottima | D |
Here's the wine | Q2 |
I brought it when we left the house above | Y |
And glasses too wine of both sorts Black White then | M |
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Sebald | A |
But am not I his cut throat What are you | B2 |
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Ottima | D |
There trudges on his business from the Duomo | D |
Benet the Capuchin with his brown hood | R2 |
And bare feet always in one place at church | S2 |
Close under the stone wall by the south entry | F |
I used to take him for a brown cold piece | A2 |
Of the wall's self as out of it he rose | A2 |
To let me pass at first I say I used | E2 |
Now so has that dumb figure fastened on me | F |
I rather should account the plastered wall | G2 |
A piece of him so chilly does it strike | T2 |
This Sebald | A |
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Sebald | A |
No the white wine the white wine | Q2 |
Well Ottima I promised no new year | U2 |
Should rise on us the ancient shameful way | H2 |
Nor does it rise Pour on To your black eyes | A2 |
Do you remember last damned New Year's day | H2 |
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Ottima | F |
You brought those foreign prints We looked at them | F |
Over the wine and fruit I had to scheme | F |
To get him from the fire Nothing but saying | L |
His own set wants the proof mark roused him up | U |
To hunt them out | J2 |
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Sebald | A |
'Faith he is not alive | Y |
To fondle you before my face | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
Do you | B2 |
Fondle me then Who means to take your life | Y |
For that my Sebald | A |
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Sebald | A |
Hark you Ottima | F |
One thing to guard against We'll not make much | V2 |
One of the other that is not make more | W2 |
Parade of warmth childish officious coil | G2 |
Than yesterday as if sweet I supposed | X2 |
Proof upon proof were needed now now first | Y2 |
To show I love you yes still love you love you | B2 |
In spite of Luca and what's come to him | F |
Sure sign we had him ever in our thoughts | A2 |
White sneering old reproachful face and all | G2 |
We'll even quarrel love at times as if | Y |
We still could lose each other were not tied | Z2 |
By this conceive you | B2 |
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Ottima | F |
Love | Y |
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Sebald | A |
Not tied so sure | A3 |
Because though I was wrought upon have struck | B3 |
His insolence back into him am I | S |
So surely yours therefore forever yours | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
Love to be wise one counsel pays another | C2 |
Should we have months ago when first we loved | C3 |
For instance that May morning we two stole | G2 |
Under the green ascent of sycamores | A2 |
If we had come upon a thing like that | D3 |
Suddenly | F |
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Sebald | A |
A thing there again a thing | L |
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Ottima | F |
Then Venus' body had we come upon | E3 |
My husband Luca Gaddi's murdered corpse | A2 |
Within there at his couch foot covered close | A2 |
Would you have pored upon it Why persist | F3 |
In poring now upon it For't is here | I2 |
As much as there in the deserted house | A2 |
You cannot rid your eyes of it For me | F |
Now he is dead I hate him worse I hate | G3 |
Dare you stay here I would go back and hold | O |
His two dead hands and say I hate you worse | A2 |
Luca than | H3 |
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Sebald | A |
Off off take your hands off mine | Q2 |
'T is the hot evening off oh morning is it | K2 |
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Ottima | F |
There's one thing must be done you know what thing | L |
Come in and help to carry We may sleep | I3 |
Anywhere in the whole wide house to night | W |
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Sebald | A |
What would come think you if we let him lie | S |
Just as he is Let him lie there until | G2 |
The angels take him He is turned by this | A2 |
Off from his face beside as you will see | F |
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Ottima | F |
This dusty pane might serve for looking glass | A2 |
Three four four grey hairs Is it so you said | J3 |
A plait of hair should wave across my neck | K3 |
No this way | H2 |
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Sebald | A |
Ottima I would give your neck | K3 |
Each splendid shoulder both those breasts of yours | A2 |
That this were undone Killing Kill the world | L3 |
So Luca lives again ay lives to sputter | C2 |
His fulsome dotage on you yes and feign | M3 |
Surprise that I return at eve to sup | U |
When all the morning I was loitering here | I2 |
Bid me despatch my business and begone | M3 |
I would | R2 |
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Ottima | F |
See | F |
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Sebald | A |
No I'll finish Do you think | C |
I fear to speak the bare truth once for all | G2 |
All we have talked of is at bottom fine | M3 |
To suffer there's a recompense in guilt | N3 |
One must be venturous and fortunate | N |
What is one young for else In age we'll sigh | S |
O'er the wild reckless wicked days flown over | C2 |
Still we have lived the vice was in its place | A2 |
But to have eaten Luca's bread have worn | M3 |
His clothes have felt his money swell my purse | A2 |
Do lovers in romances sin that way | H2 |
Why I was starving when I used to call | G2 |
And teach you music starving while you plucked me | F |
These flowers to smell | G2 |
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Ottima | F |
My poor lost friend | O3 |
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Sebald | A |
He gave me | F |
Life nothing less what if he did reproach | P3 |
My perfidy and threaten and do more | W2 |
Had he no right What was to wonder at | D3 |
He sat by us at table quietly | F |
Why must you lean across till our cheeks touched | Q3 |
Could he do less than make pretence to strike | T2 |
'T is not the crime's sake I'd commit ten crimes | A2 |
Greater to have this crime wiped out undone | M3 |
And you O how feel you Feel you for me | F |
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Ottima | F |
Well then I love you better now than ever | C2 |
And best look at me while I speak to you | B2 |
Best for the crime nor do I grieve in truth | R3 |
This mask this simulated ignorance | A2 |
This affectation of simplicity | F |
Falls off our crime this naked crime of ours | A2 |
May not now be looked over look it down | M3 |
Great let it be great but the joys it brought | S3 |
Pay they or no its price Come they or it | K2 |
Speak not The past would you give up the past | T3 |
Such as it is pleasure and crime together | C2 |
Give up that noon I owned my love for you | B2 |
The garden's silence even the single bee | F |
Persisting in his toil suddenly stopped | U3 |
And where he hid you only could surmise | A2 |
By some campanula chalice set a swing | L |
Who stammered Yes I love you | B2 |
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Sebald | A |
And I drew | B2 |
Back put far back your face with both my hands | A2 |
Lest you should grow too full of me your face | A2 |
So seemed athirst for my whole soul and body | F |
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Ottima | F |
And when I ventured to receive you here | I2 |
Made you steal hither in the mornings | A2 |
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Sebald | A |
When | M3 |
I used to look up 'neath the shrub house here | I2 |
Till the red fire on its glazed windows spread | J3 |
To a yellow haze | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
Ah my sign was the sun | M3 |
Inflamed the sere side of yon chestnut tree | F |
Nipped by the first frost | V3 |
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Sebald | A |
You would always laugh | Y |
At my wet boots I had to stride thro' grass | A2 |
Over my ankles | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
Then our crowning night | W |
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Sebald | A |
The July night | W |
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Ottima | F |
The day of it too Sebald | A |
When heaven's pillars seemed o'erbowed with heat | W3 |
Its black blue canopy suffered descend | O3 |
Close on us both to weigh down each to each | X3 |
And smother up all life except our life | Y |
So lay we till the storm came | F |
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Sebald | A |
How it came | F |
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Ottima | F |
Buried in woods we lay you recollect | Y3 |
Swift ran the searching tempest overhead | J3 |
And ever and anon some bright white shaft | X |
Burned thro' the pine tree roof here burned and there | T |
As if God's messenger thro' the close wood screen | M3 |
Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture | C2 |
Feeling for guilty thee and me then broke | Z3 |
The thunder like a whole sea overhead | J3 |
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Sebald | A |
Yes | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
While I stretched myself upon you hands | A2 |
To hands my mouth to your hot mouth and shook | Q |
All my locks loose and covered you with them | F |
You Sebald the same you | B2 |
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Sebald | A |
Slower Ottima | F |
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Ottima | F |
And as we lay | H2 |
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Sebald | A |
Less vehemently Love me | F |
Forgive me Take not words mere words to heart | A4 |
Your breath is worse than wine Breathe slow speak slow | G2 |
Do not lean on me | F |
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Ottima | F |
Sebald as we lay | H2 |
Rising and falling only with our pants | A2 |
Who said Let death come now 'T is right to die | S |
Right to be punished Nought completes such bliss | A2 |
But woe Who said that | D3 |
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Sebald | A |
How did we ever rise | A2 |
Was't that we slept Why did it end | O3 |
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Ottima | F |
I felt you | B2 |
Taper into a point the ruffled ends | A2 |
Of my loose locks 'twixt both your humid lips | A2 |
My hair is fallen now knot it again | M3 |
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Sebald | A |
I kiss you now dear Ottima now and now | M3 |
This way Will you forgive me be once more | W2 |
My great queen | M3 |
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Ottima | F |
Bind it thrice about my brow | M3 |
Crown me your queen your spirit's arbitress | A2 |
Magnificent in sin Say that | D3 |
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Sebald | A |
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I crown you | B2 |
My great white queen my spirit's arbitress | A2 |
Magnificent | B4 |
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From without is heard the voice of Pippa singing | L |
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The year's at the spring | L |
And day's at the morn | M3 |
Morning's at seven | M3 |
The hill side's dew pearled | B4 |
The lark's on the wing | L |
The snail's on the thorn | M3 |
God's in his heaven | M3 |
All's right with the world | B4 |
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Pippa passes | A2 |
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Sebald | B4 |
God's in his heaven Do you hear that Who spoke | Z3 |
You you spoke | Z3 |
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Ottima | F |
Oh that little ragged girl | G2 |
She must have rested on the step we give them | F |
But this one holiday the whole year round | B4 |
Did you ever see our silk mills their inside | B4 |
There are ten silk mills now belong to you | B2 |
She stoops to pick my double heartsease Sh | X3 |
She does not hear call you out louder | C2 |
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Sebald | B4 |
Leave me | F |
Go get your clothes on dress those shoulders | A2 |
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Ottima | F |
Sebald | B4 |
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Sebald | B4 |
Wipe off that paint I hate you | B2 |
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Ottima | F |
Miserable | G2 |
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Sebald | B4 |
My God and she is emptied of it now | M3 |
Outright now how miraculously gone | M3 |
All of the grace had she not strange grace once | A2 |
Why the blank cheek hangs listless as it likes | A2 |
No purpose holds the features up together | C2 |
Only the cloven brow and puckered chin | M3 |
Stay in their places and the very hair | T |
That seemed to have a sort of life in it | B4 |
Drops a dead web | C4 |
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Ottima | F |
Speak to me not of me | F |
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Sebald | B4 |
That round great full orbed face where not an angle | G2 |
Broke the delicious indolence all broken | M3 |
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Ottima | F |
To me not of me Ungrateful perjured cheat | B4 |
A coward too but ingrate's worse than all | G2 |
Beggar my slave a fawning cringing lie | S |
Leave me Betray me I can see your drift | B4 |
A lie that walks and eats and drinks | A2 |
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Sebald | B4 |
My God | B4 |
Those morbid olive faultless shoulder blades | A2 |
I should have known there was no blood beneath | D4 |
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Ottima | F |
You hate me then You hate me then | M3 |
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Sebald | B4 |
To think | C |
She would succeed in her absurd attempt | B4 |
And fascinate by sinning show herself | Y |
Superior guilt from its excess superior | C2 |
To innocence That little peasant's voice | A2 |
Has righted all again Though I be lost | B4 |
I know which is the better never fear | U2 |
Of vice or virtue purity or lust | B4 |
Nature or trick I see what I have done | M3 |
Entirely now Oh I am proud to feel | G2 |
Such torments let the world take credit thence | A2 |
I having done my deed pay too its price | A2 |
I hate hate curse you God's in his heaven | M3 |
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Ottima | F |
Me | F |
Me no no Sebald not yourself kill me | F |
Mine is the whole crime Do but kill me then | M3 |
Yourself then presently first hear me speak | E4 |
I always meant to kill myself wait you | B2 |
Lean on my breast not as a breast don't love me | F |
The more because you lean on me my own | M3 |
Heart's Sebald There there both deaths presently | F |
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Sebald | B4 |
My brain is drowned now quite drowned all I feel | G2 |
Is is at swift recurring intervals | A2 |
A hurry down within me as of waters | A2 |
Loosened to smother up some ghastly pit | B4 |
There they go whirls from a black fiery sea | F |
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Ottima | F |
Not me to him O God be merciful | G2 |
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Talk by the way while Pippa is passing from the hill side to Orcana Foreign Students of painting and sculpture from Venice assembled opposite the house of Jules a young French statuary at Possagno | M3 |
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st Student | B4 |
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Attention My own post is beneath this window but the pomegranate clump yonder will hide three or four of you with a little squeezing and Schramm and his pipe must lie flat in the balcony Four five who's a defaulter We want everybody for Jules must not be suffered to hurt his bride when the jest's found out | B4 |
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nd Student | B4 |
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All here Only our poet's away never having much meant to be present moonstrike him The airs of that fellow that Giovacchino He was in violent love with himself and had a fair prospect of thriving in his suit so unmolested was it when suddenly a woman falls in love with him too and out of pure jealousy he takes himself off to Trieste immortal poem and all whereto is this prophetical epitaph appended already as Bluphocks assures me Here a mammoth poem lies Fouled to death by butterflies His own fault the simpleton Instead of cramp couplets each like a knife in your entrails he should write says Bluphocks both classically and intelligibly sculapius an Epic Catalogue of the drugs Hebe's plaister One strip Cools your lip Phoebus' emulsion One bottle Clears your throttle Mercury's bolus One box Cures | A2 |
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rd Student | B4 |
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Subside my fine fellow If the marriage was over by ten o'clock Jules will certainly be here in a minute with his bride | B4 |
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nd Student | B4 |
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Good only so should the poet's muse have been universally acceptable says Bluphocks et canibus nostris and Delia not better known to our literary dogs than the boy Giovacchino | M3 |
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st Student | B4 |
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To the point now Where's Gottlieb the new comer Oh listen Gottlieb to what has called down this piece of friendly vengeance on Jules of which we now assemble to witness the winding up We are all agreed all in a tale observe when Jules shall burst out on us in a fury by and by I am spokesman the verses that are to undeceive Jules bear my name of Lutwyche but each professes himself alike insulted by this strutting stone squarer who came alone from Paris to Munich and thence with a crowd of us to Venice and Possagno here but proceeds in a day or two alone again oh alone indubitably to Rome and Florence He forsooth take up his portion with these dissolute brutalized heartless bunglers so he was heard to call us all now is Schramm brutalized I should like to know Am I heartless | A2 |
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Gottlieb | F4 |
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Why somewhat heartless for suppose Jules a coxcomb as much as you choose still for this mere coxcombry you will have brushed off what do folks style it the bloom of his life Is it too late to alter These love letters now you call his I can't laugh at them | F |
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th Student | B4 |
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Because you never read the sham letters of our inditing which drew forth these | A2 |
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Gottlieb | F4 |
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His discovery of the truth will be frightful | G2 |
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th Student | B4 |
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That's the joke But you should have joined us at the beginning there's no doubt he loves the girl loves a model he might hire by the hour | C2 |
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Gottlieb | F4 |
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See here He has been accustomed he writes to have Canova's women about him in stone and the world's women beside him in flesh these being as much below as those above his soul's aspi ration but now he is to have the reality There you laugh again I say you wipe off the very dew of his youth | R3 |
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st Student | B4 |
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Schramm Take the pipe out of his mouth somebody Will Jules lose the bloom of his youth | R3 |
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Schramm | F |
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Nothing worth keeping is ever lost in this world look at a blossom it drops presently having done its service and lasted its time but fruits succeed and where would be the blossom's place could it continue As well affirm that your eye is no longer in your body because its earliest favourite whatever it may have first loved to look on is dead and done with as that any affection is lost to the soul when its first object whatever happened first to satisfy it is superseded in due course Keep but ever looking whether with the body's eye or the mind's and you will soon find something to look on Has a man done wondering at women there follow men dead and alive to wonder at Has he done wondering at men there's God to wonder at and the faculty of wonder may be at the same time old and tired enough with respect to its first object and yet young and fresh sufficiently so far as concerns its novel one Thus | A2 |
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st Student | B4 |
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Put Schramm's pipe into his mouth again There you see Well this Jules a wretched fribble oh I watched his disportings at Possagno the other day Canova's gallery you know there he marches first resolvedly past great works by the dozen without vouchsafing an eye all at once he stops full at thePsiche fanciulla cannot pass that old acquaintance without a nod of encouragement In your new place beauty Then behave yourself as well here as at Munich I see you Next he posts himself deliberately before the unfinished Piet for half an hour without moving till up he starts of a sudden and thrusts his very nose into I say into the group by which gesture you are informed that precisely the sole point he had not fully mastered in Canova's practice was a certain method of using the drill in the articulation of the knee joint and that likewise has he mastered at length Good bye therefore to poor Canova whose gallery no longer needs detain his successor Jules the predestinated novel thinker in marble | G2 |
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th Student | B4 |
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Tell him about the women go on to the women | M3 |
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st Student | B4 |
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Why on that matter he could never be supercilious enough How should we be other he said than the poor devils you see with those debasing habits we cherish He was not to wallow in that mire at least he would wait and love only at the proper time and meanwhile put up with the Psiche fanciulla Now I happened to hear of a young Greek real Greek girl at Malamocco a true Islander do you see with Alciphron's hair like sea moss Schramm knows white and quiet as an apparition and fourteen years old at farthest a daughter of Natalia so she swears that hag Natalia who helps us to models at three lire an hour We selected this girl for the heroine of our jest So first Jules received a scented letter somebody had seen his Tydeus at the Academy and my picture was nothing to it a profound admirer bade him persevere would make herself known to him ere long Paolina my little friend of the Fenice transcribes divinely And in due time the mysterious correspondent gave certain hints of her peculiar charms the pale cheeks the black hair whatever in short had struck us in our Malamocco model we retained her name too Phene which is by interpretation sea eagle Now think of Jules finding himself distinguished from the herd of us by such a creature In his very first answer he proposed marrying his monitress and fancy us over these letters two three times a day to receive and despatch I concocted the main of it relations were in the way secrecy must be observed in fine would he wed her on trust and only speak to her when they were indissolubly united St st Here they come | F |
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th Student | B4 |
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Both of them Heaven's love speak softly speak within yourselves | A2 |
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th Student | B4 |
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Look at the bridegroom Half his hair in storm and half in calm patted down over the left temple like a frothy cup one blows on to cool it and the same old blouse that he murders the marble in | M3 |
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nd Student | B4 |
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Not a rich vest like yours Hannibal Scratchy rich that your face may the better set it off | Y |
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th Student | B4 |
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And the bride Yes sure enough our Phene Should you have known her in her clothes How magnificently pale | G2 |
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Gottlieb | F4 |
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She does not also take it for earnest I hope | G4 |
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st Student | B4 |
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Oh Natalia's concern that is We settle with Natalia | G2 |
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th Student | B4 |
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She does not speak has evidently let out no word The only thing is will she equally remember the rest of her lesson and repeat correctly all those verses which are to break the secret to Jules | A2 |
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Gottlieb | F4 |
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How he gazes on her Pity pity | F |
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st Student | B4 |
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They go in now silence You three not nearer the window mind than that pomegranate just where the little girl who a few minutes ago passed us singing is seated | B4 |
Robert Browning
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