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With marble-coloured shoulders—and keen eyes Protected by a forehead broad and white— And hair cut close, lest it impede the sight, And clenched hands, firm and of a punishing size, Steadily held, or motioned wary-wise To hit or stop—and kerchief, too, drawn tight O’er the unyielding loins, to keep from flight The inconstant wind, that all too often flies— The Nonpareil stands! Fame, whose bright eyes run o’er With joy to see a Chicken of her own, Dips her rich pen in claret, and writes down Under the letter R, first on the score, “Randall—John—Irish Parents—age not known— Good with both hands, and only ten stone four!”
With marble-coloured shoulders—and keen eyes Protected by a forehead broad and white— And hair cut close, lest it impede the sight, And clenched hands, firm and of a punishing size, Steadily held, or motioned wary-wise To hit or stop—and kerchief, too, drawn tight O’er the unyielding loins, to keep from flight The inconstant wind, that all too often flies— The Nonpareil stands! Fame, whose bright eyes run o’er With joy to see a Chicken of her own, Dips her rich pen in claret, and writes down Under the letter R, first on the score, “Randall—John—Irish Parents—age not known— Good with both hands, and only ten stone four!”
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Peter Corcoran (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 337 · printed citation: Peter Corcoran (The Fancy, 1820). · compiler notes excluded
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