XIV

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XIV

With her two brothers this fair lady dwelt,

Enriched from ancestral merchandise,

And for them many a weary hand did swelt

In torched mines and noisy factories,

And many once proud-quiver’d loins did melt

In blood from stinging whip;⁠—with hollow eyes

Many all day in dazzling river stood,

To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.