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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXX
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Thus was my soul enfranchised. But anon,
 With courage fired to full--fledged enterprise,
 And pushing still the vantage I had won,
 I sought communion with a world less wise,
 The living world. I mixed with not a few,
 Shepherds and countrymen, and village priests,
 Bagmen at inns, and all the motley crew
 Which comes and goes on market days and feasts
 In old--world hostelries of old--world towns.
 These gave a second schooling, till the grace
 Of the summer ended on the upper downs,
 And, carrying still its glory on my face,
 I came to Lyons where these things befell.
 The why and wherefore of it who shall tell?
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