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Competition

Changing fashions

26 November 2016

9:00 AM

26 November 2016

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2975 you were invited to supply your own nine-line twist on Robert Herrick’s ‘Upon Julia’s clothes’:

 

Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
 
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!





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