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That sometimes from the sayage den,

And sometimes from the darksome shade

And sometimes starting up at once

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There came and looked him in the face

An angel beautiful and bright;
And that he knew it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight!

And that unknowing what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,

And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land ;-

And how she wept, and clasped his knees; And how she tended him in vain

And ever strove to expiate

The scorn that crazed his brain ;

And that she nursed him in a cave;
And how his madness went away,
When on the yellow forest-leaves
A dying man he lay ;-

His dying words—but when I reached That tenderest strain of all the ditty, My faltering voice and pausing harp Disturbed her soul with pity!

All impulses of soul and sense

Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve ;

The music and the doleful tale,

The rich and balmy eve;

And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng,

And gentle wishes long subdued,

Subdued and cherished long!

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She wept with pity and delight,

She blushed with love, and virgin shame; And like the murmur of a dream,

I heard her breathe my name.

Her bosom heaved-she stepped aside,
As conscious of my look she stept—
Then suddenly, with timorous

She fled to me and wept.

eye

She half inclosed me with her arms,
She pressed me with a meek embrace;
And bending back her head, looked up,
And gazed upon my face.

'Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly 'twas a bashful art,

That I might rather feel, than see,
The swelling of her heart.

I calmed her fears, and she was calm, And told her love with virgin pride; And so I won my Genevieve,

My bright and beauteous Bride..

MISAPPREHENSION.

A DRAMATIC SKETCH.

By T. HOOD.

SCENE. A Club Room at the Hare and Hounds.

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At the table sits the County Coroner with his Clerk. The Jurors are arranged round the board. The Constable, &c., fill the background. TIMOTHY GUBBINS, a witness, is under examination.

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