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SHE sat alone beside her hearth	A
For many nights alone	B
She slept not on the pleasant couch	C
Where fragrant herbs were strewn	D
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At first she bound her raven hair	E
With feather and with shell	F
But then she hoped at length like night	G
Around her neck it fell	F
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They saw her wandering mid the woods	H
Lone with rite cheerless dawn	I
And then they said 'Can this be her	J
We called 'The Startled Fawn ' '	-
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Her heart was in her large sad eyes	K
Half sunshine and half shade	L
And love as love first springs to life	M
Of every thing afraid	L
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The red leaf far more heavily	N
Fell down to autumn earth	O
Than her light feet which seemed to move	P
To music and to mirth	O
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With the light feet of early youth	Q
What hopes and joys depart	R
Ah nothing like the heavy step	S
Betrays the heavy heart	R
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It is a usual history	N
That Indian girl could tell	F
Fate sets apart one common doom	T
For all who love too well	F
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The proud the shy the sensitive	U
Life has not many such	V
They dearly buy their happiness	W
By feeling it too much	V
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A stranger to her forest home	X
That fair young stranger came	Y
They raised for him the funeral song	Z
For him the funeral flame	Y
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Love sprang from pity and her arms	A2
Around his arms she threw	B2
She told her father 'If he dies	K
Your daughter dieth too '	-
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For her sweet sake they set him free	N
He lingered at her side	C2
And many a native song yet tells	D2
Of that pale stranger's bride	C2
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Two years have passed how much two years	E2
Have taken in their flight	G
They've taken from the lip its smile	F2
And from the eye its light	G
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Poor child she was a child in years	E2
So timid and so young	G2
With what a fond and earnest faith	H2
To desperate hope she clung	G2
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His eyes grew cold his voice grew strange	I2
They only grew more dear	J2
She served him meekly anxiously	N
With love half faith half fear	J2
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And can a fond and faithful heart	R
Be worthless in those eyes	K
For which it beats Ah wo to those	K2
Who such a heart despise	K
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Poor child what lonely days she passed	L2
With nothing to recall	M2
But bitter taunts and careless words	N2
And looks more cold than all	M2
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Alas for love that sits at home	X
Forsaken and yet fond	O2
The grief that sits beside the hearth	A
Life has no grief beyond	O2
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He left her but she followed him	P2
She thought he could not bear	E
When she had left her home for him	P2
To look on her despair	E
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Adown the strange and mighty stream	Q2
She took her lonely way	R2
The stars at night her pilots were	J
As was the sun by day	R2
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Yet mournfully how mournfully	M2
The Indian looked behind	S2
When the last sound of voice or step	S
Died on the midnight wind	S2
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Yet still adown the gloomy stream	Q2
She plied her weary oar	T2
Her husband he had left their home	X
And it was home no more	T2
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She found him but she found in vain	U2
He spurned her from his side	C2
He said her brow was all too dark	V2
For her to be his bride	C2
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She grasped his hands her own were cold	W2
And silent turned away	R2
As she had not a tear to shed	X2
And not a word to say	R2
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And pale as death she reached her boat	Y2
And guided it along	Z
With broken voice she strove to raise	Z2
A melancholy song	Z
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None watched the lonely Indian girl	M2
She passed unmarked of all	M2
Until they saw her slight canoe	B2
Approach the mighty Fall	M2
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Upright within that slender boat	Y2
They saw the pale girl stand	A3
Her dark hair streaming far behind	S2
Upraised her desperate hand	A3
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The air is filled with shriek and shout	B3
They call but call in vain	U2
The boat amid the waters dash'd	C3
'Twas never seen again	D3

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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