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Ellen Gray

or, The dead maiden's curse. A poem, by the late Dr. Archibald Macleod [i.e. W. L. Bowles]
  

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The day was fix'd; no longer he shall roam,
But both shall have one heart, one house, one home:

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The world shut out, both shall together pray,
Both wait the evening of life's changeful day:
She shall his anguish soothe, when he grows wild,—
And he shall be a father to her child.