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An image of Mont Blanc’s “blue-shaded buttresses and sun-creamed domes” is fleetingly glimpsed through the cloud of that particular poem which I wish I could quote but do not have at hand.  The “white mountain” of the lady’s dream, caused by a misprint to tally with Shade’s “white fountain,” makes a thematic appearance here, blurred as it were by the lady’s grotesque pronunciation.

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