Verse For Today
What find I here? Fair Portia’s counterfeit! What demi-god Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes? « Or whether, riding on the balls of mine, Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips, Parted with sugar'breath: so sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hair The painter plays the spider, and hath woven A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men, Faster than gnats in cobwebs. From “The Merchant of Venice,” * by Wm. Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 1
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83Verse For Today Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 1
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