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After Paradise or Legends of Exile

With Other Poems: By Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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THE TITLARK'S NEST.
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LEGENDS OF EXILE.
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L'ENVOI.
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POEMS.

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Into that amorous song there slid a tear.
The Rose was weeping, sad at heart was she.
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But still the Nightingale with song sincere
Sang to her in the twilight from the tree.
“O wert thou but a bird! thou art so dear,
Thee would I mate with, and wed none but thee!”
“Nay,” sigh'd the Rose, “I seek mine absent fere,
A lover bold and born of high degree,
My heart is sad because he is not here,
Sir Scarabæus he!”
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