. The princess, a medley. ur hero if you will. Take Lilia, then, for heroine, clamord he,1 And make her some great Princess, six feet high,Grand, epic, homicidal; and be youThe Prince to win her ! Then follow me, the Prince, 220I answerd, each be hero in his turn !Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream. —Heroic seems our Princess as required —But something made to suit with time and place,A Gothic ruin and a Grecian house,A talk of college and of ladies rights,A feudal knight in silken masquerade,And, yonder, shrieks and strange experimentsFor which the good Sir Ralph had burnt them all —T

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. The princess, a medley. ur hero if you will. Take Lilia, then, for heroine, clamord he,1 And make her some great Princess, six feet high,Grand, epic, homicidal; and be youThe Prince to win her ! Then follow me, the Prince, 220I answerd, each be hero in his turn !Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream. —Heroic seems our Princess as required —But something made to suit with time and place,A Gothic ruin and a Grecian house,A talk of college and of ladies rights,A feudal knight in silken masquerade,And, yonder, shrieks and strange experimentsFor which the good Sir Ralph had burnt them all —This were a medley ! we should have him back 230 Who told the Winters Tale to do it for us. A MEDLEY. No matter : we will say whatever let the ladies sing us, if they will,From time to time, some ballad or a songTo give us breathing-space. So I began,And the rest followd; and the women, sangBetween the rougher voices of the men,Like linnets in the pauses of the wind :And here I give the story and the

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