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THE LOVER by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER

First Line: HE WALKS LIKE ONE ENCHANTED
Last Line: UNTO SOME MISTRESS DEAR.
Subject(s): LOVE;

HE walks like one enchanted,
Whose soul is held in thrall,
By some sweet presence haunted
Who passed unseen by all.

He speaks as half-forgetting
The hearers that are by,
He sighs as though regretting
Some dear and soft reply.

It is a lover's rapture,
Naught doth he see or hear,
His heart is held in capture
Unto some mistress dear.



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