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clipped
| R clipped Burbank perceives Venice, symbolised by the winged lion of St. Mark, with clipped wings, a flea'd rump, and pared claws. The idea is that Venice has been dressed up and domesticised, as for a cat-show, an image Eliot may have gotten from Théophile Gautier (Italia). Burbank here wonders who has curtailed Venice's strength and ambition. reference topics
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