“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!”

—  George Meredith

A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-fair-ladies-in-revolt/ st. 16 (1883).

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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