And not always in vain,
The heathen Pass-ee is peculiar,
Which the same I am free to maintain.
OCTOPUS.[125]
By Algernon Charles Sin-burn.
(SWINBURNE)
Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed,
Whence camest to dazzle our eyes?
With thy bosom bespangled and banded
With the hues of the seas and the skies;