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NATURE, by                    
First Line: She whom I loved, not human in degree
Last Line: Blind, deaf, and dumb, beside a moaning child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature


SHE whom I loved, not human in degree,
And so I deemed unchanging, is no more
Worthy my trust, nor shall a thought restore
This wistful heart its love; and Time shall see
No mystic midnight draw her back to me,
With whom my lovely sojournings are o'er!
Nay, of the very light she loves to pour
Warm on the world, my spirit would be free!
For once, when she the whole day long had smiled,
Tuning her murmurous insect strings, my ear
Caught the swift sob of human anguish wild;
When I besought her aid, and drew her near,
Lo, she I dreamed omnipotent stood there
Blind, deaf, and dumb, beside a moaning child.





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