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First Line: Handsome and haughty!' - a comment that came
Last Line: Might surely be pardoned for wishing to share it!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers


"HANDSOME and haughty!" -- a comment that came
From lips which were never accustomed to malice;
A girl with a presence superb as her name,
And charmingly fitted for love -- in a palace!
And oft I have wished (for in musing alone
One's fancy is apt to be very erratic)
That the lady might wear -- No! I never will own
A thought so decidedly undemocratic! --
But if't were a coronet -- this I'll aver,
No duchess on earth could more gracefully wear it;
And even a democrat, thinking of her,
Might surely be pardoned for wishing to share it!





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