The works of Lord Byron A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero |
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They are proud of this—as very well they may,
It being a sort of knighthood, or gilt key
Stuck in their loins; or like to an “entré”
Up the back stairs, or such free-masonry.
I borrow my comparisons from clay,
Being clay myself. Let not those spirits be
Offended with such base low likenesses;
We know their posts are nobler far than these.
It being a sort of knighthood, or gilt key
Stuck in their loins; or like to an “entré”
Up the back stairs, or such free-masonry.
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Being clay myself. Let not those spirits be
Offended with such base low likenesses;
We know their posts are nobler far than these.
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