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Too true is all you've heard through common rumour, The Princess
Turandot's ferocious humour Has many princes caused to lose their
life In seeking to obtain her as a wife. Her beauty is so
wonderful, that all As willing victims to her mandate fall; In vain
do various painters daily vie To limn her rosy cheek, her flashing
eye, Her perfect form, and noble, easy grace, Her flowing ebon
locks and radiant face. Her charms defy all portraiture: no hand
Can reproduce her air of sweet command. Yet e'en such counterfeits,
from foreign parts Attract fresh suitors, -win all hearts. But she,
whose outward semblance thus appears To be Love's temple, such
fierce hatred bears To all marital sway, or marriage tie, That
rather than submit to man, she'd die. Great kings and princes, all
have sued in vain, One glance of love or pity to obtain
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edition identification: ++++ A Day In Stowe Gardens by M.S.
Novello]. Mary Sabilla Novello, Stowe Bucks
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