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Ballads for the Times

(Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised

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But Geraldine had watch'd that kiss,
And with involuntary hiss
And malice in her snake-like stare
She gnash'd her teeth on the loving pair
And glared on them both with a deadly glare.