We shift and bedeck and bedrape us,
Thou art noble and nude and antique.
Source: Dolores,st. 7.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.