Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Letter to Christina Rossetti, 8 November 1853
Author: DGR
Date of Composition: 1853 November 8
Type of Manuscript: letter
Scribe: DGR
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- Getting his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
- Far, far away in Belfast by the sea,
- His watchful one-eyed uninvaded sleep
- Mac Cracken sleepeth. While the PRB
- Must keep the shady side, he walks a swell
- Through spungings of perennial growth & height:
- And far away in Belfast—out of sight,
-
Added TextBy many an open do and secret sell,
- Fresh daubers he makes shift to scarify,
- 10 And fleece with pliant shears the slumbering green.
- There he has lied, though aged, & will lie,
- Fattening on ill-got pictures in his sleep,
- Till some Præ-Raphael prove for him too deep.
- Then once by Hunt & Ruskin to be seen,
- Insolvent he shall turn & in the Queen's Bench die.
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