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Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus in a Painting of “The Judgment of Paris”(1872)

Robert Browning

He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
MeterHe gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.
MeterAmazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.

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