...With chill denials of accustomed joy, Continual torment and obscure annoy. Blighted in all bloom, her withered frame Must now inherit age — young but...peeps into the future, brightly given, As though her babu's blue eyes turned earth to heaven ! Never again could she, when Claud returned After brief absence,...

...chill denials of accustomed joy, Continual torment and obscure annoy. Blighted in all her bloom — her withered frame Must now inherit age ; young but in...cares, And peeps into the future brightly given, As tho' her babe's blue eyes turned earth to heaven ! Never again could she, when Claud returned After...

...Continual torment, and obscure annoy. Blighted in all bloom, her withered frame Must now inheritage — young but in name. Never could she, at close of some...tiny, new-born infant on her breast, And in the soft lamp'» glimmer sink to rest; The strange corporeal weakness sweetly blent With a delicious dream of...

...denials of accustomed joy, Continual torment, and obscure annoy, Blighted in all her bloom, — her withered frame Must now inherit age ; young but in...novel cares, And peeps into the future brightly given, A4 though her babe's blue eyes turned earth to heaven ! Never ! — our helpless changeful natures...

...incurable invalid, that while life lasts she must remain maimed and sick, and, most cruel thought of all, " Never could she, at close of some long day Of pain...exulting lay A tiny new-born Infant on her breast." She draws her fate from the unwilling lips of the physician, in whose friendly eyes the tears are glimmering...

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