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The Squire was none of your common men	A
Whose ancestors nobody knows	B
But visible was his lineage	C
In the lines of his Roman nose	B
That turned in the true patrician curve	D
In the curl of his princely lips	E
In his slightly insolent eyelids	F
In his pointed finger tips	E
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Very erect and grand looked the Squire	G
As he walked o'er his broad estate	H
For he felt that the earth was honored	I
In bearing his honorable weight	H
Proudly he strolled through his wooded park	J
Deer haunted and gloomily grand	K
Or gazed from his pillared porticoes	E
On his far outlying land	K
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In a tiny whitewashed cottage	C
Half covered with roses wild	L
His cheerful faced old gardener dwelt	M
Alone with his motherless child	L
The Squire owned the very floor he trod	N
The grass in his garden lot	O
The poor man had only this one little lamb	P
Yet he envied the rich man not	O
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Poor was the gardener yet rich withal	Q
In this priceless pearl of a girl	Q
So perfect a form so faultless a face	E
Never brightened the halls of an Earl	Q
Her eyes were two fathomless stars of light	R
And they shone on the Squire day by day	S
Till their warm and perilous splendor	T
So melted his pride away	S
	-
That he fain would have taken this pretty pet lamb	P
To dwell in his stately fold	U
To fetter it fast with a jeweled chain	V
And cage it with bars of gold	U
But this coy little lamb loved its freedom	W
Not so free was she though to be true	X
But oh the dainty and shy little lamb	P
Well her master's voice she knew	X
	-
'Twas vain for the Squire the story to tell	Q
Of his riches and high descent	Y
As it fell into one rosy shell of an ear	Z
Out of its mate it went	Y
How one grim old ancestor into the land	K
With William the Conqueror came	A2
She thought the sweet of a conqueror	T
She knew with that very name	A2
	-
So in this tender conflict	B2
The great man was forced to yield	C2
To the handsome sunburnt ploughman	X
Who sowed and reaped in his field	C2
For vainly he poured out his glittering gifts	E
Vainly he plead and besought	C2
Her heart was a tender and soft little heart	C2
But it was not a heart to be bought	C2
	-
So strange a thing I warrant you	X
Happens not every day	C2
That the pride that had thriven for centuries	E
One slight little maiden should slay	C2
Why the proud Squire's Roman features	E
Quivered and burned with shame	A2
And the picture of his grim ancestor	T
Blushed in its antique frame	A2
	-
Were this a romance an idle tale	Q
The Squire would sicken and die	C2
Slain by the pitiless cruelty	C2
Of her dark and dazzling eye	C2
And she in some shadowy convent	C2
Would bow her beautiful head	C2
But the hand that should have told penitent beads	E
Wore a plain gold ring instead	C2
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And he not twice had his oak trees bloomed	C2
Ere he wedded a lady grand	C2
Whose tall and towering family tree	C2
Had for ages darkened the land	C2
'Twas a famous genealogical tree	C2
With no modernly thrifty shoots	E
But a tree with a sap of royalty	C2
Encrusting its mossy old roots	E
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This leaf he plucked from the outmost twig	D2
Was somewhat withered 'tis true	X
Long years had flown since it lightly danced	C2
To the summer air and the dew	X
Not much of a dowry brought she	C2
In beauty or vulgar pelf	D
But she had two or three ancestors	E
More than the Squire himself	D
	-
'Twas much to muse o'er their musty names	E
And to think that his children's brains	E
Should be moved by the sanguine current	C2
That had flown through such ancient veins	E
But I think sometimes in his secret heart	C2
The Squire breathed woeful sighs	E
For the fresh sweet face of the little maid	C2
With the dark and wonderful eyes	E
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But she no bird ever sang such songs	E
To its mate from contented nest	C2
As this wee waiting wife when the twilight	C2
Was treading the glorious west	C2
As she looked through the clustering roses	E
For the manly form that would come	W
Up through the cool green evening fields	E
To this sweet little wife and home	E2
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She could see the great stone mansion	X
Towering over the oaks' dark green	X
And the lawn like emerald velvet	C2
Fit for the feet of a queen	X
But round this brown eyed princess	E
Did Love his ermine fold	C2
Queen was she of a richer realm	F2
She had dearer wealth than gold	C2

Marietta Holley

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