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THE PRINCESS;
Of the first snowdrop's inner leaves; I say,
Not like strong bursts of sample among men,
But all one piece: and take them all-in-all,
Were we ourselves but half as good, as kind,
As truthful, much that Ida claims as right
Had ne'er been mooted, but as easily theirs
As dues of Nature. To our point: not war:
Lest I lose all.'
Not like strong bursts of sample among men,
But all one piece: and take them all-in-all,
Were we ourselves but half as good, as kind,
As truthful, much that Ida claims as right
Had ne'er been mooted, but as easily theirs
As dues of Nature. To our point: not war:
Lest I lose all.'
'Nay, nay, you spake but sense'
Said Gama, 'We remember love ourselves
In our sweet youth: we did not rate him then
This red-hot iron to be shaped with blows.
You talk almost like Ida: she can talk;
And there is something in it as you say:
But you talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.—
He seems a gracious and a gallant Prince,
I would he had our daughter: for the rest
Our own detention, why the causes weigh'd,
Fatherly fears—you used us courteously—
Said Gama, 'We remember love ourselves
In our sweet youth: we did not rate him then
This red-hot iron to be shaped with blows.
You talk almost like Ida: she can talk;
And there is something in it as you say:
But you talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.—
He seems a gracious and a gallant Prince,
I would he had our daughter: for the rest
Our own detention, why the causes weigh'd,
Fatherly fears—you used us courteously—
