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ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS (continued).

"When I saw you last, Rose" (Villanelle)

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OLD-WORLD IDYLLS.

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A DEAD LETTER.

"A cœur blessé-l'ombre et le silence."

H. DE BALZAC.

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DREW it from its china tomb ;—
It came out feebly scented

With some thin ghost of past perfume
That dust and days had lent it.

An old, old letter,-folded still!
To read with due composure,
I sought the sun-lit window-sill,
Above the gray enclosure,

That glimmering in the sultry haze,
Faint-flowered, dimly shaded,

Slumbered like Goldsmith's Madam Blaize,
Bedizened and brocaded.

A queer old place! You'd surely say
Some tea-board garden-maker

Had planned it in Dutch William's day
To please some florist Quaker,

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