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TO MIRIAM, ON HER HAIR by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN

First Line: ETHIOPIANS ARE THY LOCKS
Last Line: BY THE BLACK ABYSS OF NIGHT!
Ethiopian are thy locks;
In each hair
Lurks a snare
Worse than Afric's gulfs and rocks;
They who swear
By that hair
Swear the Koran's oath aright:
By the black Abyss of Night!




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