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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 & 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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