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1828–1909

MANFRED

George Meredith

Projected from the bilious Childe, This clatterjaw his foot could set On Alps, without a breast beguiled To glow in shedding rascal sweat.

Somewhere about his grinder teeth, He mouthed of thoughts that grilled beneath, And summoned Nature to her feud With bile and buskin Attitude.

Considerably was the world Of spinsterdom and clergy racked While he his hinted horrors hurled, And she pictorially attacked.

A duel hugeous. Tragic? Ho! The cities, not the mountains, blow Such bladders; in their shapes confessed An after-dinner's indigest.

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