I shall find no light clearer than thee,

O sable and sensual Sambo,

The servant of me!

I beheld thee beholding the ballet,

Dumps doleful display’d deep despair,

Thou didst think of thine own land, my valet,

The land in which nought thou didst wear.

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O statue, us Philistines loathing,

Of Phœbus!—our tailors we fear,