To Mary, on Receiving her Picture by Lord Byron

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This faint resemblance of thy charms, / (Though strong as mortal art could give,) / My constant heart of fear disarms, / Revives my hopes, and bids me live.

Here, I can trace the locks of gold / Which round thy snowy forehead wave; / The cheeks which sprung from Beauty's mould, / The lips, which made me Beauty's slave.

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