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PROLOGUE.
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Arranged a country dance, and flew thro' lightAnd shadow, while the twangling violinStruck up with Soldier-laddie, and overheadThe broad ambrosial aisles of lofty limeMade noise with bees and breeze from end to end.
 Strange was the sight and smacking of the time;And long we gazed, but satiated at lengthCame to the ruins. High-arch'd and ivy-claspt,Of finest Gothic, lighter than a fire,Thro' one wide chasm of time and frost they gaveThe park, the crowd, the house; but all withinThe sward was trim as any garden lawn:And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth,And Lilia with the rest, and Ralph himself,A broken statue propt against the wall,As gay as any. Lilia, wild with sport,Half child half woman as she was, had woundA scarf of orange round the stony helm,And robed the shoulders in a rosy silk,
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