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A PORTRAIT, by                    
First Line: "a slim, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed"
Last Line: "her grandson, might have been my own grandsire"
Subject(s): Grandparents;love;sex; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


ASLIM, young girl, in lilac quaintly dressed;
A mammoth bonnet, lilac like the gown,
Hangs from her arm by wide, white strings, the crown
Wreathed round with lilac blooms; and on her breast
A cluster; lips still smiling at some jest
Just uttered, while the gay, gray eyes half frown
Upon the lips' conceit; hair, wind-blown, brown
Where shadows stray, gold where the sunbeams rest.

Ah! lilac lady, step from your gold frame,
Between that starched old Bishop and the dame
In awe-inspiring ruff. We'll brave their ire
And trip a minuet. You will not? -- Fie!
Those mocking lips half make me wish that I,
Her grandson, might have been my own grandsire.





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