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"Her Triumph"
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"Her Triumph"

Ben Jonson, from A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces (1640)

What’s been the sweetest and most obvious object of wonder in an ordinary person’s life? It doesn’t matter if he’s a Huron hunter on the banks of Lake Superior, watching one of the girls as she washes out a deerskin in a clear pool on the shore, or the herdsman Jacob looking into the beautiful eyes of Rachel, or Jane Bennett charmed by the amiable look…

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Poem of the Week
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