So slim and shining, to keep her still.

“‘At last we stood at our mother’s knee.

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You, sir, know

That you on the canvas are to repeat

Things that are fairest, things most sweet,

Woods and corn fields and mulberry-tree,

But, oh, that look of reproachful woe!

High as the heavens your name I’ll shout,

If you paint me the picture, and leave that out.’”