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THE BEAUTY OF LAURA IS PEERLESS.
In one fair star I saw two brilliant eyes, / With sweetness, modesty, so glistening o'er, / That soon those graceful nests of Love before / My worn heart learnt all others to despise: / Equall'd not her whoever won the prize / In ages gone on any foreign shore; / Not she to Greece whose wondrous beauty bore / Unnumber'd ills, to Troy death's anguish'd cries: / Not the fair Roman, who, with ruthless blade / Piercing her chaste and outraged bosom, fled / Dishonour worse than death, like charms display'd; / Such excellence should brightest glory shed / On Nature, as on me supreme delight, / But, ah! too lately come, too soon it takes its flight.
MACGREGOR.