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O Mary dear, that you were here     With your brown eyes bright and clear.     And your sweet voice, like a bird     Singing love to its lone mate     In the ivy bower disconsolate;     Voice the sweetest ever heard!     And your brow more...     Than the ... sky     Of this azure Italy.     Mary dear, come to me soon,     I am not well whilst thou art far;     As sunset to the sphered moon,     As twilight to the western star,     Thou, beloved, art to me.     O Mary dear, that you were here;     The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'

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