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Julia Alpinula

With The Captive of Stamboul and Other Poems. By J. H. Wiffen
Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes (1792-1836)
  
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JULIA ALPINULA.
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POEMS.

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Written in an Album.

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Oh, I could whisper thee a tale
That surely would thy pity move,
But lightly would the lips avail
To shadow forth the soul's deep love.

2

To tell that tale my pen were weak,
My tongue the office too denies,
Then mark it on my varying cheek,
And read it in my silent eyes.
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