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Canto the Third

     LXVIII
Crystal and marble, plate and porcelain,
     Had done their work of splendour; Indian mats
And Persian carpets, which the heart bled to stain,
     Over the floors were spread; gazelles and cats,
And dwarfs and blacks, and such like things, that gain
     Their bread as ministers and favourites (that's
To say, by degradation) mingled there
As plentiful as in a court, or fair.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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