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I, a princess, king-descended, decked with jewels, gilded, drest, / Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast, / For all I shine so like the sun, and am purple like the west.
Two and two my guards behind, two and two before, / Two and two on either hand, they guard me evermore; / Me, poor dove, that must not coo, -- eagle, that must not soar.