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MAUD.
XXIII.
1.
See what a lovely shell,
Small and pure as a pearl,
Lying close to my foot,
Frail, but a work divine,
Made so fairily well
With delicate spire and whorl,
How exquisitely minute,
A miracle of design!
2.
What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
