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Margaret's Remembrance Of Lightfoot.

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My beautiful steed,     'Tis painful indeed     To think we are parted forever;     That on no sunny day,     With light spirits and gay,     Over hills far away,     We shall joyously travel together.     Thy soft glossy mane     I shall ne'er see again,     Nor thy proudly arched neck 'gain behold;     Nor admire that in thee,     Which so seldom we see,     A kind, gentle spirit, yet bold.     Thou wert pleasant indeed     My darling grey steed,     "In my mind's eye" thou'rt beautiful still;     For when thou wert old     Thy heart grew not cold,     Its warm current time never could chill.     Not a stone marks the spot     Where they laid thee, Lightfoot,     And no fence to enclose thee around;     But what if there's not,     Deep engraved on my heart     Thy loved image may ever be found.

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