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I	A
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ENOUGH of rose bud lips and eyes	B
Like harebells bathed in dew	C
Of cheek that with carnation vies	B
And veins of violet hue	C
Earth wants not beauty that may scorn	D
A likening to frail flowers	E
Yea to the stars if they were born	D
For seasons and for hours	E
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Through Moscow's gates with gold unbarred	C
Stepped One at dead of night	C
Whom such high beauty could not guard	C
From meditated blight	C
By stealth she passed and fled as fast	C
As doth the hunted fawn	F
Nor stopped till in the dappling east	C
Appeared unwelcome dawn	F
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Seven days she lurked in brake and field	C
Seven nights her course renewed	C
Sustained by what her scrip might yield	C
Or berries of the wood	C
At length in darkness travelling on	G
When lowly doors were shut	C
The haven of her hope she won	H
Her foster mother's hut	C
	-
'To put your love to dangerous proof	I
I come ' said she 'from far	J
For I have left my Father's roof	I
In terror of the czar '	-
No answer did the Matron give	K
No second look she cast	C
But hung upon the fugitive	K
Embracing and embraced	C
	-
She led the Lady to a seat	C
Beside the glimmering fire	L
Bathed duteously her wayworn feet	C
Prevented each desire	L
The cricket chirped the house dog dozed	C
And on that simple bed	C
Where she in childhood had reposed	C
Now rests her weary head	C
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When she whose couch had been the sod	C
Whose curtain pine or thorn	D
Had breathed a sigh of thanks to God	C
Who comforts the forlorn	D
While over her the Matron bent	C
Sleep sealed her eyes and stole	M
Feeling from limbs with travel spent	C
And trouble from the soul	M
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Refreshed the Wanderer rose at morn	D
And soon again was dight	C
In those unworthy vestments worn	D
Through long and perilous flight	C
And 'O beloved Nurse ' she said	C
'My thanks with silent tears	N
Have unto Heaven and You been paid	C
Now listen to my fears	O
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'Have you forgot' and here she smiled	C
'The babbling flatteries	O
You lavished on me when a child	C
Disporting round your knees	O
I was your lambkin and your bird	C
Your star your gem your flower	L
Light words that were more lightly heard	C
In many a cloudless hour	L
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'The blossom you so fondly praised	C
Is come to bitter fruit	C
A mighty One upon me gazed	C
I spurned his lawless suit	C
And must be hidden from his wrath	P
You Foster father dear	Q
Will guide me in my forward path	P
I may not tarry here	R
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'I cannot bring to utter woe	S
Your proved fidelity '	-
'Dear Child sweet Mistress say not so	S
For you we both would die '	-
'Nay nay I come with semblance feigned	C
And cheek embrowned by art	C
Yet being inwardly unstained	C
With courage will depart '	-
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'But whither would you could you flee	T
A poor Man's counsel take	U
The Holy Virgin gives to me	T
A thought for your dear sake	U
Rest shielded by our Lady's grace	O
And soon shall you be led	C
Forth to a safe abiding place	O
Where never foot doth tread '	-
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II	A
THE dwelling of this faithful pair	V
In a straggling village stood	C
For One who breathed unquiet air	V
A dangerous neighbourhood	C
But wide around lay forest ground	C
With thickets rough and blind	C
And pine trees made a heavy shade	C
Impervious to the wind	C
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And there sequestered from the eight	C
Was spread a treacherous swamp	W
On which the noonday sun shed light	C
As from a lonely lamp	X
And midway in the unsafe morass	O
A single Island rose	O
Of firm dry ground with healthful grass	O
Adorned and shady boughs	O
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The Woodman knew for such the craft	C
This Russian vassal plied	C
That never fowler's gun nor shaft	C
Of archer there was tried	C
A sanctuary seemed the spot	C
From all intrusion free	T
And there he planned an artful Cot	C
For perfect secrecy	T
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With earnest pains unchecked by dread	C
Of Power's far stretching hand	C
The bold good Man his labor sped	C
At nature's pure command	C
Heart soothed and busy as a wren	Y
While in a hollow nook	Z
She moulds her sight eluding den	Y
Above a murmuring brook	Z
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His task accomplished to his mind	C
The twain ere break of day	C
Creep forth and through the forest wind	C
Their solitary way	C
Few words they speak nor dare to slack	A2
Their pace from mile to mile	B2
Till they have crossed the quaking marsh	C2
And reached the lonely Isle	B2
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The sun above the pine trees showed	C
A bright and cheerful face	O
And Ina looked for her abode	C
The promised hiding place	O
She sought in vain the Woodman smiled	C
No threshold could be seen	D2
Nor roof nor window all seemed wild	C
As it had ever been	E2
	-
Advancing you might guess an hour	L
The front with such nice care	V
Is masked 'if house it be or bower '	-
But in they entered are	J
As shaggy as were wall and roof	I
With branches intertwined	C
So smooth was all within air proof	I
And delicately lined	C
	-
And hearth was there and maple dish	F2
And cups in seemly rows	O
And couch all ready to a wish	F2
For nurture or repose	O
And Heaven doth to her virtue grant	C
That here she may abide	C
In solitude with every want	C
By cautious love supplied	C
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No queen before a shouting crowd	C
Led on in bridal state	C
E'er struggled with a heart so proud	C
Entering her palace gate	C
Rejoiced to bid the world farewell	G2
No saintly anchoress	O
E'er took possession of her cell	G2
With deeper thankfulness	O
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'Father of all upon thy care	V
And mercy am I thrown	H2
Be thou my safeguard ' such her prayer	V
When she was left alone	H2
Kneeling amid the wilderness	O
When joy had passed away	C
And smiles fond efforts of distress	O
To hide what they betray	C
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The prayer is heard the Saints have seen	D2
Diffused through form and face	O
Resolves devotedly serene	D2
That monumental grace	O
Of Faith which doth all passions tame	I2
That Reason should control	M
And shows in the untrembling frame	I2
A statue of the soul	M
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III	A
'TIS sung in ancient minstrelsy	O
That Phoebus wont to wear	V
The leaves of any pleasant tree	T
Around his golden hair	V
Till Daphne desperate with pursuit	C
Of his imperious love	J2
At her own prayer transformed took root	C
A laurel in the grove	K2
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Then did the Penitent adorn	D
His brow with laurel green	D2
And 'mid his bright locks never shorn	D
No meaner leaf was seen	D2
And poets sage through every age	L2
About their temples wound	C
The bay and conquerors thanked the Gods	O
With laurel chaplets crowned	C
	-
Into the mists of fabling Time	M2
So far runs back the praise	O
Of Beauty that disdains to climb	M2
Along forbidden ways	O
That scorns temptation power defies	O
Where mutual love is not	C
And to the tomb for rescue flies	O
When life would be a blot	C
	-
To this fair Votaress a fate	C
More mild doth Heaven ordain	N2
Upon her Island desolate	C
And word not breathed in vain	N2
Might tell what intercourse she found	C
Her silence to endear	R
What birds she tamed what flowers the ground	C
Sent forth her peace to cheer	Q
	-
To one mute Presence above all	O2
Her soothed affections clung	P2
A picture on the cabin wall	O2
By Russian usage hung	P2
The Mother maid whose countenance bright	C
With love abridged the day	C
And communed with by taper light	C
Chased spectral fears away	C
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And oft as either Guardian came	I2
The joy in that retreat	C
Might any common friendship shame	I2
So high their heart would beat	C
And to the lone Recluse whate'er	L
They brought each visiting	Q2
Was like the crowding of the year	Q
With a new burst of spring	Q2
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But when she of her Parents thought	C
The pang was hard to bear	V
And if with all things not enwrought	C
That trouble still is near	Q
Before her flight she had not dared	C