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Beauty Thoughts Sweet Lord Byron Walks Explore X3

Front Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty
Explore: x3
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
Back •Her external beauty is an expression of her thoughts of goodness and peacefulness - both pure and dear 
•'softly...serenely sweet express' (some adverbs) sibilance is almost supernatural, used to replicate the hum of night time, and thus her epiphereal quality
•'pure' idealised, mystical + angelic image

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