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LADY BLESSINGTON.

Yet on the haunted canvass dwells
    The beauty of that face,
Which art’s departed master held
    His sweetest task to trace;
None see it but are prisoners held
    In its strong toil of grace.

Nature, thy fairy godmother,
    Has lavished, for thy part,
A prodigality of gifts
    To make thee what thou art;
The lovely face, the gifted mind,
    The kind and generous heart.