Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Chapter 80 No.80

When I had guineas many a one

Nought else I lackèd 'neath the sun,

I had two eyes the bluest seen,

A perfect shape, a gracious mien,

I had a voice might charm the bale

From a two days widowed nightingale,

And if you ask how this I know

I had a love who told me so.

The lover pleads, the maid hearkeneth,

Her foot turns, his

            
            

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