III

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Character

He spake of virtue: not the gods

More purely, when they wish to charm

Pallas and Juno sitting by:

And with a sweeping of the arm,

And a lacklustre deadblue eye,

Devolved his rounded periods.

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