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Again the shuddering lover view'd,By famine and by toil subdued,
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Again he mark'd the hollow eye;
The sunken cheek, the panting sigh;
The cold dews starting from each pore;
The lips which roses wont to paint,
Pale-quivering now; the ringlets faint,
Once light as plumage of the dove,
And buoyant as the breath of love,
Now clinging to her forehead damp;
He mark'd the varying colors break,
In fitful brightness, o'er her cheek,
Now ashy pale, now blushing meek;
Like flashes of th' expiring lamp.
Deep groans his tortur'd bosom swell:
“Hush! she revives: all will be well!”
Cried the fair sanguine Isabel.
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