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ON SITTING BEBIDE A BEAUTt FDL-LAJDT- AT THE THEAT&B, She sate within that crowded hall, Where all was life and light, And many beauties around hwbeasMd But none were so rare and bright. - No friend was near; she sate aline . - Amid that joyous throng j . /_, And blind was I to all other «|ht« And deaf to mirth and song. Her hair a single rose enshrined, Whiter than falling snow t And glittered afar the cycle ran That spanned her marble brow. The morn of woman scarce had dawMd Upon- her youthful form ; I longed to shelter such a flower Throughout life's troutjooe storm. J^esd—dead was I to all around, Bs*» b»» I leanttwMde j With h*lf closed eyes and blessed tboU|hU I wooe*.|Ms;for.my bride. .. I reTelled in self-created joys, ; \ And set imagination free, , And nerer a cleud did rest upon The star of my happy destiny. Methought her hand did touch my heart, And if thrilled with exquisite pain j - At length I looked—the lady was gone— And to were my watch and chain.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 25 September 1880, Page 1
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176Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 25 September 1880, Page 1
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