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Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
At me you smiled, but unbeguiled
I saw the snare, and I retired;
The daughter of a hundred earls,
You are not one to be desired.
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Stanza 1.

 

Alfred Tennyson (Lord)

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Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

 

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