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Oh! "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"[266] As some one somewhere sings about the sky, And I, ye learnéd ladies, say of you; They say your stockings are so--(Heaven knows why, I have examined few pair of that hue); Blue as the garters which serenely lie Round the Patrician left-legs, which adorn The festal midnight, and the levee morn.[ep]