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COQUETTE.
"Coquette," my love they sometimes call, For she is light of lips and heart j - What though she smile alike on all, . If in her smiles sherfcnows no art ? ' Like some glad brook Bhe seems to be, That ripples o'er its pebbly bed, And prattles to each flower or tree, Which Btoopa to kiss it, overhead. Beneath the heavens white and blue It pnrls and sings and laughs and leaps, The tunny meadows dancing through O'er noisy shoals and frothy steeps. 'Tis thus the world doth see the brook; But I have seen it otherwise, When following it to some far nook , Where leafy shields shut out the skies. And. there its waters rest, subdued, ' . In shadowy pools, serene and shy, Whorein grave thoughts and fancies brood — jAnd tender dreams and longings lie. I lovo it when it laughs and leaps, - But love it better when at rest—, • 'Tis only in its tranquil deeps I see my image in its breast!
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 1
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164Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 1
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