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Lilah, Alice, Hypatia

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To Alice and Hypatia Bradlaugh     Who was Lilah? I am sure     She was young and sweet and pure;     With the forehead wise men love,     Here a lucid dawn above     Broad curved brows, and twilight there,     Under the deep dusk of hair.     And her eyes? I cannot say     Whether brown, or blue, or grey:     I have seen them brown, and blue,     And a soft green grey, the hue     Shakespeare loved (and he was wise);     'Grey as glass' were Silvia's eyes.     So to Lilah's name above     I will add two names I love,     Linking with the bracket curls     Three sweet names of three sweet girls:-     Sunday of Saint Valentine,     Eighteen hundred sixty-nine.

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"To Alice and Hypatia Bradlaugh..."

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