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PORTRAIT OF A LADY.


BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.


Lady, thy lofty brow is fair,
Beauty's sign and seal are there;
And thy lip is like the rose
Closing round the bee's repose;
And thine eye is like a star,
But blue as the sapphires' are.
Beautiful patrician! Thou
Wearest on thy stately brow