The Fall of the Leaf And Other Poems. By Charles Bucke ... Fourth Edition |
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Early she knew, a People's love's the gem!That shines the brightest in a diadem:
That gem (despising every courtier's art)
She won, she wore, and polish'd in her heart.
Proud of her Country, through that Country wide
She liv'd—she died—its ornament and pride.
Briton in views, in manners, and in mind;
Warm, open, honest, liberal, and kind;
All ease, all grace!—For her e'en peasants pray,
For wheresoe'er she look'd, Pride, sullen, stalk'd away!
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