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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XI
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Beyond her sat a second monster. She
 In shape and sense was undisguisedly real,
 An ox--eyed queen of full--fed majesty
 And giant height and comeliness ideal.
 She too her tale related, as was due,
 In measured tones, her age, her birth, her name,
 Bourgeois her parents, friends of order too,
 And good Imperialists of honest fame,
 Her age eighteen, her height seven feet, her waist
 An ell and more in its circumference,
 Her leg above the knee, and where was placed
 Its point of full development. . . The sense
 Of the rest I lost, for laughing half aloud
 Again a woman touched me in the crowd.
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