But once I saw her, with the auburn hair
In rich profusion, shading her pure cheek,
A cheek of beauty, and so sweetly fair,
...
Yes! there was one that loved thee — years that steal
In swift succession from this changing scene,
Cannot efface thine image; and I feel
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Fitz Eustace. —
'The seagull flutters to her nest
The fishermen are gone to rest,
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Fitz Eustace.
In gay parterres where I have been
What groups of gaudy flowers I've seen
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Fair Estelle.
* * * * *
Moons wax'd, and waned in dreary hopelessness,
And ever when my days sad task was done,
...
Still she was fair, although the bloom of youth
Had yielded to the hectic of disease,
And fever lighted up her brilliant eye,
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Rose of Lancaster.
Her downcast eyes are bent on earth,
On her wild harp one lily arm
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Tho' all neglected now, the time hath been
When yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;
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Encircled by a blooming band
Of peerless damsels, fair and young,
Reclined yon canopy beneath,
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