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Whistler.

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(At the Exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum, March, 1910.)     So sharp the sword, so airy the defence!     As 'twere a play, or delicate pretence!     So fine and strange, so subtly poised, too     The egoist, that looks forever through!     That little spirit, air and grace and fire,     A-flutter at your frame, is your desire;     No, it is you, who never knew the net.     Exquisite, vain, whom we shall not forget!

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"(At the Exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum, March, 1910.)..."

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