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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXXVII
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She seemed to change as if with a change of the wind,
 And growing serious sighed, ``Now look,`` she said,
 ``You think me a mad woman and unkind,
 But that is nonsense. I am sound of head
 And not unsound of heart, ah, no, not there!
 But you turn my head with your John the Baptist`s face.
 I will not be made jealous, so beware.``
 She looked entreatingly as if for grace,
 And held me by the arm. ``We are strangers both
 Among these heavy Lyonnese. By right
 We so should hold together. Tell me truth.
 You never saw me, did you, till to--night?``
 I said, ``I came here not twelve hours ago!
 Why should you think it?`` ``No,`` she broke in, ``no.
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