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First Line: Rose castles / those bustles
Last Line: Laid low by the ondine.


ROSE Castles
Those bustles
Beneath parasols seen!
Fat blondine pearls
Rondine curls
Seem. Bannerols sheen
The brave tartan
Waves' Spartan
Domes -- (Crystal Palaces)
Where like fallacies
Die the calices
Of the water-flowers green.
Said the Dean
To the Queen,
On the tartan wave seen:
"Each chilly
White lily
Has her own crinoline,
And the seraphs recline
On divans divine
In a smooth seventh heaven of polished pitch-pine."
Castellated,
Related
To castles the waves lean
Balmoral-like;
They quarrel, strike
(As round as a rondine)
With sharp towers
The water-flowers
And, floating between,
Each chatelaine
In the battle slain --
Laid low by the Ondine.





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