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“When words, half love, all tenderness,
Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken.”
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Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken.”
―
“What is she writing? Watch her now,
How fast her fingers move!
How eagerly her youthful brow
Is bent in thought above!
Her long curls, drooping, shade the light,
She puts them quick aside.”
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How fast her fingers move!
How eagerly her youthful brow
Is bent in thought above!
Her long curls, drooping, shade the light,
She puts them quick aside.”
―
“You ask if she had beauty's grace?
I know not - but a nobler face
My eyes have seldom seen;
A keen and fine intelligence,
And, better still, the truest sense
Were in her sparkling mien.”
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I know not - but a nobler face
My eyes have seldom seen;
A keen and fine intelligence,
And, better still, the truest sense
Were in her sparkling mien.”
―
“How strange this mass of ancient treasures
Mementoes of past pains and pleasures;
These volumes, clasped with costly stone,
With print all faded, gilding gone”
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Mementoes of past pains and pleasures;
These volumes, clasped with costly stone,
With print all faded, gilding gone”
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