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A Vision of the Mermaids is an odd poem. For one thing we see little of the mermaids, largely because they are so over-dressed. A crest made of some gossamer stuff stretches from ‘crown to tail-fin’. They have fins on their shoulders, their hair is elaborately decorated with coral, sea-weed, shells, sea anemones and so on, and they wear long skirts. Some of them play with the sea-weed, others dive or splash:
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© 1988 Richard Cronin
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Cronin, R. (1988). Pure Blues. In: Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09556-8_15
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