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THE CHARMS OF HER COUNTENANCE AND VOICE.
Whence could Love take the gold, and from what vein, / To form those bright twin locks? What thorn could grow / Those roses? And what mead that white bestow / Of the fresh dews, which pulse and breath obtain? / Whence came those pearls that modestly restrain / Accents which courteous, sweet, and rare can flow? / And whence those charms that so divinely show, / Spread o'er a face serene as heaven's blue plain? / Taught by what angel, or what tuneful sphere, / Was that celestial song, which doth dispense / Such potent magic to the ravish'd ear? / What sun illumed those bright commanding eyes, / Which now look peaceful, now in hostile guise; / Now torture me with hope, and now with fear?