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Our homeliness of words and ways.
Folk songs
By Whittier, John Greenleaf
A certain pard-like, treacherous grace
Swayed the lithe limbs and dropped the lash,
Lent the white teeth their dazzling flash;
And under low brows, black with night,
Rayed out at times a dangerous light;
The sharp heat-lightnings of her face
Presaging ill to him whom Fate
Artist: Whittier, John Greenleaf
Year: 1850
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