But in the homestead's heart, where'er that opulent palace
Hides a retreat, all shines with splendour of gold and of silver.
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Ivory blanches the seats, bright gleam the flagons a-table,
All of the mansion joys in royal riches and grandeur.
But for the Diva's use bestrewn is the genial bedstead,
Hidden in midmost stead, and its polisht framework of Indian
Tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell.
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This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood primeval