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I	A
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THERE was a lady who had early wed	B
One whom she saw and lov'd in her bright youth	C
When life was yet untried and when he said	B
He too lov'd her he spoke no more than truth	C
He lov'd as well as baser natures can	D
But a mean heart and soul were in that man	D
II	A
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And they dwelt happily if happy be	E
Not with harsh words to breed unnatural strife	F
The cold world's Argus watching failed to see	E
The flaw that dimm'd the lustre of their life	F
Save that he seem'd tyrannical tho' gay	G
Restless and selfish in his love of sway	G
III	A
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The calm of conscious power was not in him	H
But rather struggling into broader light	I
The secret sense they feel however dim	H
Whose chance position gives a sort of right	I
As from the height of a prescriptive throne	J
To govern natures nobler than their own	J
IV	F
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And as her youth waned slowly on there fell	K
A nameless shadow on that lady's heart	L
And those she lov'd the best and she lov'd well	K
Had of her confidence nor share nor part	L
Her thoughts lay folded from Life's lessening light	I
Like the sweet flowers which close themselves at night	I
V	F
	-
And men began to whisper evil things	M
Against the honour of her wedded mate	N
That which had pass'd for youth's wild wanderings	M
Showed more suspicious in his settled state	N
Until at length he stood at some chance game	O
Discover'd branded with a Cheater's name	O
VI	F
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Out and away he slunk with felon air	P
Then calling to him one who was his friend	Q
Bid him to that unblemish'd wife repair	P
And tell her what had chanced and what the end	Q
How they must leave the country of their birth	R
And hide in some more distant spot of earth	R
VII	F
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It was a coward's thought he could not bear	P
Himself to be narrator of his shame	O
He that had trampled oft now felt in fear	S
Of her who still must keep his blighted name	O
And shrank in fancy from that steadfast eye	F
The window to a soul so pure and high	F
VIII	F
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She heard it O'er her brow there pass'd a flush	T
Of sunset red and then so white a hue	U
So deadly pale it seem'd as if no blush	T
Through that transparent cheek should shine anew	U
As if the blood had frozen in that hour	V
And her check'd pulse for ever lost its power	V
IX	M
	-
And twice and once did she essay to speak	W
And with a gesture almost of command	X
Though in its motion it was deadly weak	W
She faintly lifted up her graceful hand	X
But then her soul came back to her strength woke	Y
And with a low but even voice she spoke	Y
X	M
	-
'Go say to him who dream'd of other chance	M
That HERE none sit in judgment on his sin	Z
That to his door the world's scorn may advance	M
And cloud his path but doth not enter in	Z
Here dwell his Own to share to soothe disgrace '	-
Which having said she cover'd up her face	M
XI	M
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And as he left her sank in bitter prayer	P
If prayer that may be term'd which comes to all	A2
That sudden gushing of our vain despair	P
When none but God can hear or heed our call	A2
And the wreck'd soul feels in its helpless hour	V
Where only dwells full mercy with full power	V
XII	M
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And he came home a crush'd and humbled wretch	T
Whom when she saw she but this comfort found	B2
In her kind arms that shrinking form to catch	T
Which tenderly about his neck she wound	B2
As in the first proud days of love and trust	C2
E'er yet his reckless head was bow'd in dust	C2
XIII	M
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And they departed to a distant shore	D2
But wheresoe'er they dwelt however lone	J
Shame like a marble statue at his door	D2
Flung her 'thwart shadow o'er his threshold stone	J
Still darken'd all their daylight hours and kept	E2
Cold watch above them even while they slept	E2
XIV	F
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And there was no more love between those two	U
It died not in the shock of that dark hour	V
Such shocks destroy not love whose purple hue	U
Fades rather like some autumn wither'd flower	V
Which day by day along the ruin'd walk	F2
We see then miss it from the sapless stalk	F2
XV	F
	-
And while it fadeth oft with gentle hand	X
Doth memory turn to life's dark journal book	G2
And passing foul misdeeds intently stand	X
On its first page of glorious hope to look	G2
Weeping she reads and seeing all so fair	P
Pleads hard for what we are by what we were	V
XVI	F
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So through that hour love lived and though in part	L
'Twas one of most unutterable pain	H2
It had its sweetness too and told her heart	L
All she could do and all she could sustain	H2
The holy love of woman buoy'd her up	I2
And God gave strength to drink the bitter cup	I2
XVII	F
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But when as days crept on she saw him still	J2
Less grateful than abash'd beneath her eye	F
And studying not how best to banish ill	J2
But what he might conceal and what deny	F
Her soul revolted and conceived a scorn	K2
Sinful and harsh although of virtue born	K2
XVIII	F
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And oft she pray'd with earnestness and pain	H2
That heaven would bid that proud contempt depart	L
And wept to find the prayer and effort vain	H2
Though it was breathed in agony of heart	L
Vain as the murmur of 'Thy will be done '	-
Breathed by the death bed of an only son	L2
XIX	M
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For when her children err'd as children will	J2
A sickening terror smote her heart with fears	M
And scarce she measured the degree of ill	J2
Or made indulgence for their tender years	M
They were HIS children and the chance of shame	O
Kept watch for those who bore that father's name	O
XX	M
	-
And thinking thus reproof would take a tone	J
So strangely passionate severe and wild	M2
So deeply alter'd so unlike her own	J
It stung and terrified her startled child	M2
Whose innate sense of justice seem'd to show	T
Him over chidden being chidden so	T
XXI	T
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And then a gush of mother's love would swell	K
Her grieving heart and she would fondly press	T
The young offending head she loved so well	K
Close to her own with many a soft caress	T
Whose reconciling sweetness all in vain	H2
Stopp'd her boy's tears while her's ran down like rain	H2
XXII	T
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The world which still pronounces from the show	T
Of outward things whisper'd and talk'd of this	T
Erring and obstinate its crowds ne'er know	T
How much in judging they may judge amiss	T
Or how much agony and broken peace	T
May lie beneath the seeming of caprice	T
XXIII	T
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But he her husband for he was not dull	N2
Saw through these workings of a troubled mind	O2
And that her cup of sorrow might be full	P2
He taunted her with words and looks unkind	O2
Which with a patient bowing of the heart	L
She took like one resolved to do her part	L
XXIV	F
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And years stole on for years go by like days	T
Leaving but scatter'd hours to mark their course	T
And brightness faded from that lady's gaze	T
And her cheek hollow'd and her step lost force	T
Till it was plain to even a careless eye	F
That she was doom'd before her time to die	F
XXV	F
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She died as she had lived her secret soul	Q2
Shut from the sweet communion of true friends	T
Her words though not her thoughts she could control	Q2
And still with calm respect his name she blends	T
They all stood round her whom she call'd her Own	J
And saw her die yet was that death bed lone	J
XXVI	F
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But in its darkest hour her thoughts were stirr'd	R2
And something falter'd from her dying tongue	S2
Mournful and tender half pronounced half heard	R2
For which he was too base his boys too young	S2
So whatso'er the warning faintly given	L2
It lay between her parting soul and Heaven	L2
XXVII	F
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He wept for her ah who would not have wept	E2
To see that worn face in its pallid shroud	T2
Proving how much she suffer'd ere she slept	E2
At peace for ever Violent and loud	T2
Was the outbreaking of his sudden grief	F
And like all feelings in that heart 'twas brief	F
XXVIII	F
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And something strange pass'd o'er his soul instead	B
When thinking upon her whom he had lost	U2
Almost like a relief that she was dead	B
She whose high nature scorn'd his fault the most	V2
And sh	T