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SHE saw herself a lady / With fifty frocks in wear, / And rolling wheels, and rooms the best, / And faithful maidens' care, / And open lawns and shady / For weathers warm or drear.
She found herself a striver, / All liberal gifts debarred, / With days of gloom, and movements stressed, / And early visions marred, / And got no man to wive her / But one whose lot was hard.
Yet in the moony night-time / She steals to stile and lea / During his heavy slumberous rest / When homecome wearily, / And dreams of some blest bright-time / She knows can never be.