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First Line: When, in your palace, amid whatsoe'er
Last Line: This halting tongue and trembling heart of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Hearts; Life


WHEN, in your palace, amid whatsoe'er
Is most august and noble, I see you stand,
One of the greatest ladies of the land,
Almost it seems as if the marvels there,
The sacred things untarnishably fair
That grew from painter's or from sculptor's hand,
Had into warm and breathing life been fanned,
By puissant spell, in that enchanted air; --
By power and mandate of the Spirit divine
That, flashing forth from radiant Womanhood,
Can, with unuttered word and secret sign,
Waken insentient stone, inanimate wood;
Ev'n as it touches to melodious mood
This halting tongue and trembling heart of mine.





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