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Lines Upon Seeing ---- At One Of The Annual Banquets Given In Guildhall.

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Gorgeous and splendid was the sight;     From myriad lamps a fairy light     Enshrin'd in wreaths the Gothic wall,     And heav'nly music fill'd the hall!     But there was one - (alas! that I     Had ever seen) - the melody     Her voice surpassed, and brighter far     Her eyes than ev'ry mimic star!     I gaz'd, until, oh! thought divine!     I fancied she I saw was mine;     But soon the beauteous vision flew -     The stranger-form I lov'd withdrew.     Yet still she lives within my breast,     There mem'ry has her form imprest: -     Thus, when some minstrel's strain is done,     Sounds seem to breathe, for ever gone!

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