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XI. A Crocodile.
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The poems posthumous and collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes | ||
XI. A Crocodile.
Hard by the lilied Nile I sawA duskish river-dragon stretched along,
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl:
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No bigger than a mouse; with eyes like beads,
And a small fragment of its speckled egg
Remaining on its harmless, pulpy snout;
A thing to laugh at, as it gaped to catch
The baulking, merry flies. In the iron jaws
Of the great devil-beast, like a pale soul
Fluttering in rocky hell, lightsomely flew
A snowy troculus, with roseate beak
Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat.
The poems posthumous and collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes | ||