The Picture Gallery.
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A royal Princess, true, thou may'st not be, Tho' linked to royalty thy name;And yet I willing pause—nobility Rests not on crown or fame,Proud "Alice."
And thus my flower, my lovely English flower, I hold thee to thy Norman name,And count it e'en thy best and sweetest dower, No meeter could'st thou claim—My "Alice."
