Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription

Document Title: The devil has gone right (draft manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1848?
Type of Manuscript: holograph draft

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  • The devil has gone
  • right
  • out of sight
  • for he got up on
  • a running horse wan
  • I should say white
  • but being in the night
  • when no moon shone.
  • he appeared thus
  • 10a black robe
  • which he wore over the [?] eft
  • a devil [?] of which he made us
  • so as to hide his tail which did probe
  • from time to time his [?] of [?] left
  • of which he was bereft.

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Source File: 44-1848.sangms.rad.xml
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