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THE PRINCESS;
A little street half garden and half house;
But could not hear each other speak for noise
Of clocks and chimes, like silver hammers falling
On silver anvils, and the splash and stir
Of fountains spouted up and showering down
In meshes of the jasmine and the rose:
And all about us peal'd the nightingale,
Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare.
But could not hear each other speak for noise
Of clocks and chimes, like silver hammers falling
On silver anvils, and the splash and stir
Of fountains spouted up and showering down
In meshes of the jasmine and the rose:
And all about us peal'd the nightingale,
Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare.
There stood a bust of Pallas for a sign,
By two sphere lamps blazon'd like Heaven and Earth
With constellation and with continent,
Above an archway: riding in, we call'd;
A plump-arm'd Ostleress and a stable wench
Came running at the call, and help'd us down,
Then stept a buxom hostess forth, and sail'd
Full-blown before us into rooms which gave
Upon a pillar'd porch, the bases lost
In laurel: her we ask'd of that and this,
And who were tutors, 'Lady Blanche' she said,
By two sphere lamps blazon'd like Heaven and Earth
With constellation and with continent,
Above an archway: riding in, we call'd;
A plump-arm'd Ostleress and a stable wench
Came running at the call, and help'd us down,
Then stept a buxom hostess forth, and sail'd
Full-blown before us into rooms which gave
Upon a pillar'd porch, the bases lost
In laurel: her we ask'd of that and this,
And who were tutors, 'Lady Blanche' she said,
