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Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear
(The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.
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"The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.

 

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