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UPON THE FAIRE ETHIOPIAN SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN by RICHARD CRASHAW

Poet Analysis

First Line: LO HERE THE FAIRE CHARICLIA! IN WHOM STROVE
Last Line: SHEE SHALL APPEARE TRUE ETHIOPIAN.
Subject(s): HELIODORUS (3D CENTURY A.D.);
Lo here the faire Chariclia! in whom strove
So false a Fortune, and so true a Love.
Now after all her toyles by Sea and Land,
O may she but arrive at your white hand,
Her hopes are crown'd, onely she feares that than,
Shee shall appeare true Ethiopian.



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