The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 32 No.32

His loved one's eyes could poet ever speak,

So kind, so dewy, and so deep were hers,- 10

But, while he strives, the choicest phrase, too weak,

Their glad reflection in his spirit blurs;

As one may see a dream dissolve and break

Out of his grasp when he to tell it stirs,

Like that sad Dryad doomed no more to bless

The mortal who

            
            

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