“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Stanza 2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
“Now her coat drags through the water,
Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows
In the magnetic embrace,
Balletic and glacial, of Bear's insatiable shadow.”
Monkey & Bear
Ys (2006)
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