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Round the base of the rock, and the sparkle and flash of the sunshine,

Like the spirit of God, moving visibly over the waters.

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HUS for

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PRISCILLA

T a while he stood, and mused

by the shore of the ocean,

Thinking of many things, and most of all of

Priscilla;

And as if thought had the power to draw to

itself, like the loadstone,

Whatsoever it touches, by subtle laws of its

nature,

Lo! as he turned to depart, Priscilla was standing beside him.

"Are you so much offended, you will not speak to me?" said she.

"Am I so much to blame, that yesterday, when you were pleading

Warmly the cause of another, my heart, im

pulsive and wayward,

Pleaded your own, and spake out, forgetful

perhaps of decorum ?

Certainly you can forgive me for speaking so

frankly, for saying

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