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A MEDLEY.
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And, tost on thoughts that changed from hue to hue,Now poring on the glow-worm, now the star, I paced the terrace, till the bear had wheel'd Thro' a great arc his seven slow suns.
A step Of lightest echo, and then a loftier form Than female, moving thro' the uncertain gloom Disturb'd me with the doubt 'if this were she' But it was Florian. 'Hist O hist,' he said, 'They seek us; out so late is out of rules. Moreover "seize the strangers" is the cry. I found the key in the doors: how came you here? Last of the train, a moral leper, I, To whom none spake, half-sick at heart, return'd. Arriving all confused among the rest With hooded brows I crept into the hall, And, couch'd behind a Judith, underneath The head of Holofernes peep'd and saw. Girl after girl was call'd to trial: each
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