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Poems and Sonnets

By George Barlow

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69

A QUESTION.

One look I have especial in my mind—
Ah! Lady, cruel lady, was it fair
To rouse a hope predestined not to find
Fulfilment, thus to flood the rosy air
With radiance, that I might the sooner share
Despondent wintry darkness of the blind?