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TO HELEN (1) by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF WANDERING IN A WIZARD'S CAR
Last Line: THE LIGHT HER LOVE O'ER MINE IS THROWING
Subject(s): LOVE;

IF wandering in a wizard's car
Through yon blue ether, I were able
To fashion of a little star
A taper for my Helen's table;—

"What then?" she asks me with a laugh—
Why, then, with all heaven's lustre glowing,
It would not gild her path with half
The light her love o'er mine is throwing



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