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XIII.

The strange youth had a look as if he might Have trod far planets where the atmosphere, (Of nobler temper) steeps the face with light, Just as our skins are tanned and freckled here; His air was that of a cosmopolite In the wide universe from sphere to sphere; Perhaps he was (his face had such grave beauty) An officer of Saturn's guards off duty.