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of Frankfort Street
Sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, / (I credit Milton in parenthesis), / Among the speculations that she made / Was this:
"When" -- these her very words -- "when you return, / A slave to duty's harsh commanding call, / Will you, I wonder, ever sigh and yearn / At all?"
Doubt, honest doubt, sat then upon my brow. / (Emotion is a thing I do not plan.) / I could not fairly answer then, but now / I can.
Yes, Amaryllis, I can tell you this, / Can answer publicly and unafraid: / You haven't any notion how I miss / The shade.