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Or, The Jealousies / A Faery Tale. Unfinished / I

In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool, / There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air, / A faery city, 'neath the potent rule / Of Emperor Elfinan; fam'd ev'rywhere / For love of mortal women, maidens fair, / Whose lips were solid, whose soft hands were made / Of a fit mould and beauty, ripe and rare, / To pamper his slight wooing, warm yet staid:

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