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Poems 1918-21 :

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VIII. VIII

Ritratto

AND she said:
"You remember Mr. Lowell,
"He was your ambassador here?"
And I said: "That was before I arrived."
And she said:
"He stomped into my bedroom. . . .
(By that time she had got on to Browning.)
". . . stomped into my bedroom. . . .
"And said: `Do I,
" `I ask you, Do I
" `Care too much for society dinners?'
"And I wouldn't say that he didn't.
"Shelley used to live in this house."
She was a very old lady,
I never saw her again.


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