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Mid silken cushions richly wrought a young Greek girl reclined	A
And fairer form the harem s walls had ne er before enshrined	A
Mid all the young and lovely ones who round her clustered there	B
With glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes she shone supremely fair	B
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Tis true that orbs as dark as hers in melting softness shone	C
And lips whose coral hue might vie in brightness with her own	C
And forms as light as ever might in Moslem s heaven be found	D
So full of beauty s witching grace were lightly hovering round	D
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Yet oh how paled their brilliant charms before that beauteous one	E
Who mid their gay mirth silent sat from all apart alone	C
Outshining all not by the spells of lovely face or form	F
But by the soul that shone through all her peerless priceless charm	G
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But say what were the visions sweet that filled that gentle heart	H
Surely to Azof her liege lord was given the greatest part	H
To him who prized her smiles beyond the power his sceptre gave	I
And mighty sultan though he was to her was as a slave	I
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No not of crowned heads thought she then of hall or gilded dome	J
But of fair Greece that classic land her loved her early home	J
She yearns to see again its skies proud temples woodland flowers	K
Less bright but dearer far than those that bloom in harem bowers	K
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She glanced upon the jewels rich that gemmed her shining hair	B
And wreathed her sculptured snowy arms her neck and brow so fair	B
Their lustre softened not the pangs that filled that lonely hour	L
More happy was she when her braids were decked with simple flower	L
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But Azof did not thought of him some passing joy impart	H
Did not the memory of his love bring gladness to her heart	H
Alas that long and heavy sigh the glitt ring tear that fell	M
From neath her dark and drooping lids told more than words could tell	M
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Awhile she weeps and then a change steals o er her mournful dream	N
Her gloomy thoughts are chased away and all things brighter seem	N
A timid and yet blissful smile lights up her beauteous brow	O
Her soft cheek crimsons but oh not of Azof thinks she now	O
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Perchance of some gallant Greek she knew in life s young hour	L
Some childish love as guileless as her love for bird or flower	L
But which looked back on through the mist of absence or of time	P
Seemed sad and sweet as are the words of some old childish rhyme	P
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Could he her royal lover now but look into her heart	H
And read its depths how sharp the pang that knowledge would impart	H
But no secure in certain bliss he deems her all his own	C
And prides himself that girlish heart loves him and him alone	C
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The sadness which might have awaked suspicion or mistrust	Q
Was of the spells she swayed him by the dearest and the first	R
He deemed it but the token of a timid gentle heart	H
That ever kept from needless show or noisy mirth apart	H
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He knew not that the voice which now sang but some mournful lay	S
Breathed once the soul of joyousness was gayest of the gay	S
That the soft laugh whose magic power his very heart strings stirred	T
Though now so rare in girlhood s home had oftentimes been heard	T
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Th averted head the timid look the half unwilling ear	U
With which she met his vows of love he deemed but girlish fear	V
Nor ever dreamed that she whom all considered as thrice blessed	W
Whose life was like a summer day loved honored and caressed	W
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Who held a captive to her charms a most accomplished knight	X
And monarch brave that ever yet had bowed to woman s might	X
Was but a poor and joyless slave compelled to wear a smile	Y
And act a part for which she loathed her wretched self the while	Y
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But like some fair exotic brought unto a foreign strand	Z
She lost her bloom and pined to see once more her native land	Z
And only when from earthly scenes death summoned her to part	H
A blissful smile played round her lips and peace was in her heart	H

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

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