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And, if she move unquietly,

Perchance, 'tis but the blood so free, Comes back and tingles in her feet. No doubt, she hath a vision sweet. What if her guardian spirit 'twere What if she knew her mother near? But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call:

For the blue sky bends over all!

CHRISTABEL.

PART II.

CHRISTABEL.

EACH matin bell, the Baron saith,

Knells us back to a world of death.

These words Sir Leoline first said, When he rose and found his lady dead :

These words Sir Leoline will say

Many a morn to his dying day.

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