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PARISINA.

II.

But it is not to list to the waterfall lS

Tint Parisiua leaves her hall,

And it is not to gaze on the heavenly lightThat the lady walks in the shadow of night;

And if she sits in Este’s bower,

J Tis not for the sake of its full - blown flower — 20She listens — but not for the nightingale —Though her ear expects as soft a tale.

There glides a step through the foliage thick,And her cheek grows pale — and her heart beatsquick.

There whispers a voice through the rustlingleaves, 25

And her blush returns, and her bosom heaves:

A moment, more — and they shall meet —

'Tis past — her lover’s at her feet.

III.

And what unto them is the world besideWith all its change of time and tide? So

Its living things — its earth and sky —

Are nothing to their mind and eye.

And heedless as the dead are theyOf aught around, above, beneath;

As if all else had passed away, S5