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Lays of France

(Founded on The Lays of Marie.) By Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Second Edition
O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844-1881)

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LAUSTIC;
 
THE LAY OF THE TWO LOVERS.
 
CHAITIVEL;
 
THE LAY OF ELIDUC.
 
THE LAY OF YVENEC.

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But his coming brought
The new strange miracle of love
Upon her; and her heart, estranged
From all that once had seemed enough,
Sprang sudden at him as a bird
Breaking a snare, or as a free
Blithe butterfly some second birth
Lifts in the air, no more to be
The joyless worm it was on earth.
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