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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXXII
Work rating: Low

I had stopped to read a handbill of the play,
 Caught by the lettering. Thus it was I read,
 ``Programme of this night`s pieces, Saturday
 The twentieth of October, `X. Y. Z.,`
 A piece in one act, and `Les Bergers Fous,`
 These to be followed by the well--known `drame`
 Of `Manon Lescaut,` here brought out anew
 For the first time at Lyons.`` And a name
 Followed in giant type of one who then
 Illustrious stood in all the world of folly,
 The most sublime Comedian known to men,
 ``Mademoiselle Esther, Muse of Melancholy.``
 She in her part of Manon, so `twas writ,
 Three nights would play in honour infinite.
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