And lank of limb, and greenish as with mould,

And full-red lips and shocks of fulvous hair,

And raiments strange of fold.

No raven so delighteth in its song,

Of sad and sullen monotone,

As I to watch those ladies lean and long,

And angular of bone.

And to myself I said, "All these are mine.

Let the dull world take Nature's part,

'Tis one to me; I hold no thing divine