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TO A LADY IN ILLNESS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New to the world, when all was fairy ground
Last Line: Thy beauty deeply is engraven there.
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness


NEW to the world, when all was fairy ground,
And shapes romantic stream'd before my sight,
Thy beauty caught my soul, and tints as bright
And fair as fancy's dreams in thee I found.
In cold experience when my hopes were drown'd,
And life's dark clouds o'er-veil'd in mists of night
The forms that wont to fill me with delight,
Thy view again dispell'd the darkness round.
Shall I forget thee, when the pallid cheek,
The sighing voice, wan looks, and plaintive air,
No more the roseate hue of health bespeak?
Shall I neglect thee as no longer fair?
No, lovely maid! If in my heart I seek,
Thy beauty deeply is engraven there.





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