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Lucile
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I.
With stout iron shoes be my Pegasus shod! For my road is a rough one: flint, stubble, and clod, Blue clay, and black quagmire, brambles no few, And I gallop up-hill, now.
There’s terror that’s true In that tale of a youth who, one night at a revel, Amidst music and mirth lured and wiled by some devil, Follow’d ever one mask through the mad masquerade, Till, pursued to some chamber deserted (’tis said), He unmasked, with a kiss, the strange lady, and stood Face to face with a Thing not of flesh nor of blood. In this Mask of the Passions, call’d Life, there’s no human Emotion, though mask’d, or in man or in woman, But, when faced and unmask’d, it will leave us at last Struck by some supernatural aspect aghast. For truth is appalling and eldrich, as seen By this world’s artificial lamplights and we screen From our sight the strange vision that troubles our life. Alas! why is Genius forever at strife With the world, which, despite the world’s self, it ennobles? Why is it that Genius perplexes and troubles And offends the effete life it comes to renew? ’Tis the terror of truth! ’tis that Genius is true!
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Chicago:
Owen Meredith, "I.," Lucile, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Lucile (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4APJ9F19CEZYIF1.
MLA:
Meredith, Owen. "I." Lucile, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Lucile, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 2 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4APJ9F19CEZYIF1.
Harvard:
Meredith, O, 'I.' in Lucile, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Lucile, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 2 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4APJ9F19CEZYIF1.
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