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A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.

lx.

"Moreover it is written that my race

Hew'd Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer
On Arnon unto Minneth." Here her face
Glow'd, as I look'd at her.

lxi.

She lock'd her lips: she left me where I stood:

"Glory to God," she sang, and past afar,
Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood,
Toward the morning-star.

lxii.

Losing her carol I stood pensively,

As one that from a casement leans his head,
When midnight bells cease ringing suddenly,
And the old year is dead.

lxiii.

"Alas! alas!" a low voice, full of care,

Murmur'd beside me: "Turn and look on me:
I am that Rosamond, whom men call fair,
If what I was I be.