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Her bosom heaved she stepped aside,
As conscious of my look she stepped
Then suddenly, with timorous eye
She fled to me and wept.

She half enclosed me with her arms,
She pressed me with a meek embrace:
And bending back her head, looked up,
And gazed upon my face.

'Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly 'twas a bashful art,
That I might rather feel, than see,
The swelling of her heart.

I calmed her fears, and she was calm,
And told her love with virgin pride;
And so I won my Genevieve,

My bright and beauteous Bride.

FRANCE: AN ODE (1798)

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Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of

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Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making it a companionable form,

Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,

Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,

Fill up the interspersed vacancies

Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling And momentary pauses of the thought!

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Lulled me to sleep, and sleep prolonged Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.

my dreams!

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And so I brooded all the following morn, Awed by the stern preceptor's face, mine

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