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22

1920

(MAUBERLEY)

I.

T

URNED from the "eau-forte

Par Jaquemart"
To the strait head
Of Messalina:

"His true Penelope
Was Flaubert",
And his tool
The engraver's

Firmness,
Not the full smile,
His art, but an art
In profile;

Colourless
Pier Francesca,
Pisanello lacking the skill
To forge Achaia.