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TO A LADY RECOVERING FROM SICKNESS, by                    
First Line: There is a charm in the pallid cheek
Last Line: And soft as the breathing of sorrow's sigh.
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness


There is a charm in the pallid cheek;
A charm which the tongue can never speak,
When the hand of sickness has wither'd awhile,
The rose which had bloom'd in the rays of a smile.
There is a charm in the heavy eye,
When the tear of sorrow is passing by,
Like a summer shower o'er yon vault of blue,
Or the violet trembling 'neath drops of dew.
It spreads around a shade as light
As daylight blending with the night;
Or't is like the tints of an evening sky,
And soft as the breathing of sorrow's sigh.





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