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PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by                    
First Line: You sit so still, with hands demurely crossed
Last Line: And life held high adventure and romance.


You sit so still, with hands demurely crossed.
Your eyes are fixed upon the land of dreams,
The world of everyday completely lost
As softened light from leaded casement streams
Across the ebon ripple of your hair.
Your tight bodice, made of a stiff brocade,
Well suits the carving of your high-backed chair
As does your mantle, edged with silver braid.

Oh lady, from the land of long ago,
At sight of you we let our fancy stray.
Forgetting all the sting of present woe
We fly in fancy, back to yesterday
When you trod measures of a stately dance
And life held high adventure and romance.





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